Colin B. Swaney Position Senior Research Software Engineer Role Data Driven Social Science Initiative (DDSS) Office Phone 609-258-8980 Email [email protected] Office 347 Lewis Library Bio/Description Background: B.S. in Mathematics and Economics, M.S. in Mathematics, Ph.D. in Finance from the University of IowaColin joined the RSE group at Princeton in May 2021 in affiliation with the Initiative for Data-Driven Social Science. His work focuses on creating open-source statistical software and building systems to manage and facilitate research on large-scale social science databases. In his past research, he has developed methods to forecast high-frequency trade activity and predict mutual fund returns using machine learning methods. Prior to Princeton, Colin held roles as a quantitative researcher at Jacobs Levy Equity Management and as the lead data scientist at Nova Credit Inc.