Curriculum Vitae - Esmaeil Izadi

Vancouver, BC, Canada · ✉️ esmaeil_izadi@sfu.ca Download PDF

Education

  • PhD in Economics, Simon Fraser University, Canada (2019–2025)
  • MA in Economics, University of New Mexico, USA (2018)
  • MSc in Economics, University of Tehran, Iran (2016)
  • BSc in Marine Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran (2010)

Research

Job-market papers

  • Applied theory: Contested Unity — paper
  • Applied econometrics: Political Connections, Growth and Firm Network (with Addisu Lashitew, Rizal Shidiq, Eric Werker) — paper

Working papers

  • Nation-State Building (with Chris Bidner) — paper

Publications

  • Graph-Embedded Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Pricing under Network Effects (with Ehsan Ardjmand, Ali Tavasoli, Behnaz Moradi-Jamei, Heman Shakeri) — paper

Works in progress

  • Large-scale Urban Projects, Housing Market and Neighborhood Sorting
  • Energy-Economy Projections Spread in IAMs: A Variance Decomposition Approach

Teaching

Guest lecturer

  • ECON 860 — Environmental Economics, SFU (Spring 2021)
  • ECON 504 — Mathematics in Economics, UNM (Fall 2018)

Teaching assistant (selected)

  • Beedie School of Business (SFU): BUS 651 Managerial Economics (MBA, Spring 2024); BUS 552 Managerial Economics (MBA, Fall 2023 & Spring 2024); BUS 803 Financial Data Analysis with Python (Fall 2023)
  • Department of Economics (SFU): ECON 335 Econometrics & Data Analysis (2021–2023); ECON 355W Economic Development (2020–2022); ECON 302 Intermediate Microeconomics (2022–2023); ECON 102 Global Development (Spring 2024)
  • University of New Mexico: ECON 334 Economics of Regulation; ECON 330 Data Analysis in Economics; ECON 504 Mathematics for Economists; ECON 501 Advanced Microeconomics

Awards & Fellowships

  • Peter Kennedy Memorial Graduate Fellowship, SFU (2024) — $32,000
  • Thesis Completion Award, SFU (2025) — $7,000
  • Dean’s Graduate Entrance Scholarship, SFU (2019–2023) — $84,000
  • Graduate Fellowship, SFU (2020–2024)
  • TransLink Research Scholarship, BC (2020–2021) — $15,000
  • Graduate Scholarship, University of New Mexico (2017–2019)

Presentations (selected)

  • SIOE 2025 — Contested Unity, Sydney, Australia (Aug 2025)
  • ASREC 2025 — Contested Unity, Copenhagen, Denmark (Sep 2025)
  • ECCC 2025 — Projections Variance in Energy-Economy Modeling, Ottawa, Canada (Aug 2025)
  • CEA 2024 — Contested Unity, Toronto (Jun 2024)
  • ASSA 2023 — Nation-State Building, New Orleans (Jan 2023)
  • CEA 2022 — Nation-State Building, Ottawa (Jun 2022)
  • ASREC 2022 — Orange, CA (Apr 2022)
  • Berkeley Summer School on Climate Change & Energy Economics — Berkeley, CA (Aug 2019)

Voluntary Service

  • Vice President, Economics Graduate Student Society, SFU
  • Mentor, Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN)
  • Researcher, Bahamestan NGO, Tehran, Iran

Skills

  • Applied theory; applied microeconomics; deep learning; energy-economy modeling; communication & teaching
  • Programming: Python, R, SQL, Stata, ArcGIS, GAMS