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Ravshan
Hojimatov

I’m an economist interested in modeling social phenomena as complex systems.

My full name is Ravshanbek Khodzhimatov and I am a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria. I am using agent-based modeling to understand the coordination and diffusion of knowledge in organizations. My research interests are large-scale computer simulations of social phenomena and, since recently, Urban Science.

General Info

Languages

  • English
  • Russian
  • Turkish
  • German
  • Arabic

Work Experience

  • Dec 2022—present

    Entwicklerburg LLC, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

    Software Developer

    Led a team of software developers in the field of automation. Connected services in Python and C++ via API and Protocol Buffers, wrote my own serialization protocols. Jump-started CI/CD activities (by migrating from Vi- sual Studio to CMake build tools, Bash/PowerShell scripting and Bitbucket Pipelines). Worked on a Computer Vision project for object detection from aerial imagery.

  • Oct 2019—Oct 2022

    Digital Age Research Center, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Senior Scientist

    Developed a simulation framework to model the diffusion of knowledge and spreading of norms in social networks in organizations. Wrote a Python library nkpack for modeling complex systems. Achieved up to 30x speed boost in runtime using vectorization and just-in-time compilation. Experi- mented with CUDA.

  • Sep 2017—Sep 2019

    Self-employed, Istanbul, Turkey

    Data Scientist/Backend developer

    Wrote R packages for an algorithmic trading firm, jump-started an investor dashboard project in Django, created simulation models for utility crypto tokens, assisted a machine learning for economists univesity course./p>

  • Jul 2016—Jun 2017

    Devoin SDS, Istanbul, Turkey

    Backend developer

    Wrote scrapers for a Ruby on Rails project, managed PostgreSQL database, built REST API to connect the Rails app to a machine learning module writ- ten in Python.

Education

  • 2019—2024 (expected)

    Ph.D. Social Sciences and Economics

    University of Klagenfurt, Austria

    Thesis title: Conformity in complex organizational environments: an agent-based approach.

  • 2015—2019

    M.A. Economics

    Boğaziçi University, Turkey

    Thesis title: Comparative analysis of alternative life-cycle investment strategies for Turkey.

  • 2011—2015

    B.A. International Trade

    Boğaziçi University, Turkey

    With focus on Theoretical Economics.

Skills

Programming Languages

Python

R

C++

MATLAB

Scientific computing

numpy/pandas/tidyverse/numba/CUDA

Econometrics/Random processes

Agent-based modeling

Machine Learning

Software development

Django/Flask/FastAPI

Git/Docker/CI/CD

Tensorflow/OpenCV

asyncio