Colin B. Swaney

Position
Senior Research Software Engineer
Role
Data Driven Social Science Initiative (DDSS)
Office Phone
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 Iowa

Colin 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.