Philip Solimine

Philip Solimine

PhD Economist, Data Scientist

Biography

I am an economist and data scientist working in marketing science and operations at Chewy. Before joining Chewy, I worked for three years in the Vancouver School of Economics and the Centre for Innovative Data in Economic Research at the University of British Columbia. I earned a dual PhD in Economics and MS in Computational Science from Florida State University in 2022.

Most of my research falls into empirical industrial organization, behavioural economics, market design and political economy; my published work focuses on how platform design features, regulatory incentives, and market structure interact to determine the dynamics of social and economic networks, and examines the role of these endogenous network structures and their evolution in shaping economic outcomes.

These are complex systems; in addition to answering empirical questions my work has often developed new computational methods that expand the frontier of what we can learn from data. This includes contributions to causal machine learning, structural estimation, and cybernetics.

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Interests
  • Network economics
  • Market design
  • Economics and computation
  • Industrial organization
  • Experimentation
  • Optimal control
Education
  • PhD in Economics, 2022

    Dissertation: Economic behavior in dynamic networks Committee: Matthew Gentry (co-chair), Luke Boosey (co-chair), R. Mark Isaac, Cynthia Fan Yang, Anke Meyer-Baese

  • MSc in Computational Science, 2022

    Thesis: Optimal control for networked moments Committee: Anke Meyer-Baese (chair), Max Gunzburger, Paul Beaumont

  • MSc in Economics, 2018

  • BA in Mathematics, 2016

  • BSc in Economics, 2016

    Florida State University

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Vancouver School of Economics University of British Columbia
Postdoctoral Fellow
Vancouver School of Economics
University of British Columbia
Aug 2022 – Present Vancouver, BC
 
 
 
 
 
Departments of Economics and Scientific Computing Florida State University
Charles & Persis Rockwood Doctoral Fellow
Departments of Economics and Scientific Computing
Florida State University
Aug 2017 – Jul 2022 Tallahassee, FL
I was the first Charles & Persis Rockwood Doctoral Fellow and a Research Fellow of the L. Charles Hilton Center in the Departments of Economics and Scientific Computing at FSU.
 
 
 
 
 
XSFS Experimental Social Science Lab Florida State University
Researcher
XSFS Experimental Social Science Lab
Florida State University
Jan 2015 – Aug 2017 Tallahassee, FL

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