Curriculum Vitae - Esmaeil Izadi
Vancouver-Victoria, BC, Canada · ✉️ eizadi@uvic.ca Download PDF
Positions
- Research Fellow, Sustainable Energy Systems Integration & Transitions (SESIT), University of Victoria (2025–present)
- Lead economist on MacroABM-CA, the first open-source Canadian agent-based macroeconomic model for energy-economy policy and project evaluation at the provincial level.
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
Publications
- Graph-Embedded Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Pricing under Network Effects (with Ehsan Ardjmand, Ali Tavasoli, Behnaz Moradi-Jamei, Heman Shakeri), Applied Soft Computing (2025) · paper
Working papers
- Contested Unity: a dynamic political-economy model of identity-regime formation · paper
- Political Connections, Growth and Firm Network (with Addisu Lashitew, Rizal Shidiq, Eric Werker) · paper
- Nation-State Building (with Chris Bidner) · paper
Works in progress
- MacroABM-CA: an open-source agent-based macroeconomic model for Canadian energy-economy policy and provincial project evaluation (SESIT, University of Victoria)
- 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)
- Thesis Completion Award, SFU (2025)
- Dean’s Graduate Entrance Scholarship, SFU (2019–2023)
- Graduate Fellowship, SFU (2020–2024)
- TransLink Research Scholarship, BC (2020–2021)
- 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