Marzie Taheri Sanjani

Education 2009-2014 PhD candidate Economics, London Business School, UK - Major in applied macroeconomics and econometrics - Additional courses on financial modelling 2007-2009 MSc. in Electrical and System Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, USA GPA 3.9/4 - Major in Robotics - Minor in Math 2003-2007 B.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran Academic Success: 1) The 1st Prize, Tehran Regional Math Contest, Tehran, Iran (1999, 2000). 2) Iran Nationwide entrance exam for Private schools (2003): Ranked 8 out of 480,000, 3) Iran Nationwide entrance exam for Public schools (2003): Ranked 337 out of 480,000. 4) Doctoral Fellowship & Chair award for Outperformance in “EE 2008 Doctoral Examination” Leadership Experiences: Representative of the electrical engineering students of University of Tehran in Science and Research Ministry of Iran (2005 to 2007) Entrepreneurial and Team work Experiences Treasury position of newly founded “AFTAB Charity society”, Iran, 2004 Computer skills C++, FORTRAN, MATLAB, Eviews, STATA, Excel, Word Business Experiences 2004 – 2007 Part time electrical engineer, Daygan Business Intelligence Co., Tehran, Iran 2006 Summer Intern, Thin Film Laboratory, School of ECE, University of Tehran, Iran 2009 Teaching Assistant, London Business School, UK Related Accomplished Projects (some) - Macroeconometrics: Investigating the Time Series Relation between Financial Development and Growth using Vector Autoregression with long run restriction, MATLAB, EVIEW - Probability and Statistics: Statistical analysis of Iran’s earthquakes data base, MATLAB - Convex Optimization: Finding a distributed implementation of Newton's algorithm for the Optimal network flow problem, cvx (MATLAB). - Game Theory: Coalition formation in democratic society based on Daron Acemoglu’s frame work. - Fuzzy Logic: Design of high Capacity watermarking NeuroFuzzy filters, MATLAB. Language skill: Persian (Native), English (Fluent), Arabic (Advance), French (Beginner) Nationality: Iranian

Research Interest Monetary policy, applied macroeconomics and time series, Bayesian Econometrics