INTRODUCTION

I'm Hao-Che
(Howard) Hsu

CV

ABOUT

Data Scientist & Economist

My research focuses on applied econometrics, empirical IO, and the intersection of data science and machine learning.

I obtained my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California—Irvine.

SKILLS

Languages & Techniques

Time-series Forecasting

Discrete Choice

Causal Inference

Machine Learning

Python

SQL

Java

R

Git

HTML/CSS

Julia

STATA

TeX

RESUME

Experience

Google2023 —

Data Scientist

Engineering — ODS

HP2023

Economist Intern

Pricing Analytics

Google2022

Data Scientist Intern

Glassbox Learning

Amazon.com2021

Economist Intern

Prime Video

Education

Ph.D. in Economics
University of California—Irvine

M.S. in Economics
University of Wisconsin—Madison

B.A. in Economics
National Chung Cheng University

RESEARCH

Projects

Selection of prior work and visualizations.

Map of Alternative-credit Loan Inquiries

Vue.js

Highcharts

Map of ALT-credit Loan Inquiries (ALT Loan Lab)

Please view this interactive map on desktop browsers.
Product Level Hierarchy Classification with Transformer-based Clustering

ML

Poster link

I utilize a sentence transformer to embed product names with BERT models. The products gathered from online stores are projected into the embedding space and grouped into finer COICOP categories to calculate price indexes.

Unlike traditional NLP models, the Transformer-based model evaluates sentence tokens simultaneously. The inputs are represented by a vector of embeddings that incorporate position and attention information. The high-dimensional embeddings are reduced to ten principal components and clustered with the EM algorithm.
Community Detection on a Social Network

Graphical Models

Draft link

This project investigates various community detection techniques using network data from the Hornet social platform. The approaches compared include Mixed Membership Stochastic Blockmodels and K-means clustering on both node edges and individual demographic features. The likelihoods of different sampling methods for the stochastic model are evaluated and the network topology is visualized using Gephi.
Random Coefficient Logit Model with MCMC Algorithms

Metrics

Draft link

Numerous techniques have been developed to solve the random coefficients logit model. Following a developed method, I modify the prior distribution assumption on the aggregate demand shocks and estimate demand by sequentially updating the market share inversion process with Gibbs and Metropolis-Hasting sampling methods. In particular, I present a practitioner's guide including details of the algorithms' implementations.
Image Generation with an Introspective Deep Learning Algorithm

ML

Github link

This project re-implements the introspective variational autoencoder to synthesize realistic images. IntroVAE repurposes the inference model to additionally act as a discriminator, enabling the model to self-estimate differences between generated and real images in an adversarial manner.

We replicate and deliver comparable image quality to those presented in the research, and confirm the advantages of this model over standard VAEs and GANs.