Senior Data Analyst, Synergy
Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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PROJECTS
"Working-from-Home and Changes in Transport Demand in Australia", 2020 - 2022. Part of iMove's project "Working from home: Changes in transport demand in Perth". Funded by Western Australian Department of Transport. Role: Co-investigator (with Brett Smith, Kirsten Martinus, Doina Olaru and Sharon Biermann).
"Interaction between Energy Development and Economic Growth in the Context of Climate Change", 2019 - 2021. Funded by Vietnam Ministry of Education and Training. Role: Co-investigator (with Duc Vo).
"Exchange rates, Prices and Consumption", 2016 - 2020. Funded by Australian Government and UWA Business School. Role: Chief investigator.
"Analysing Global Consumption Patterns with a Large Number of Commodities", 2017 - 2019. Funded by Australian Research Council and BHP Billiton. Role: Research Assistant (for Ken Clements and Yihui Lan).
EXPERIENCES
Forecasting Analyst; Customer Business Unit; Synergy; 07/2023 - present
Senior People and Capability Analyst; People, Strategy and Social Values; Synergy; 01/2023 - 06/2023
Workforce Data Analyst; People, Strategy and Social Values; Synergy; 12/2022 - 01/2023
Workforce Data Analyst; Sustainability Business Unit; Synergy; 7/2021 - 11/2022
Research Fellow; Planning and Transport Research Centre; School of Social Sciences, UWA; 1/2020 – 6/2021
Teaching Assistant; Business School, UWA; 8/2016 – 6/2021
Research Officer; Business School, UWA; 8/2017 – 12/2020
Research Assistant; School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University; 3/2020 – 6/2021
Teaching Assistant; Victoria University of Wellington; 3/2013 – 4/2014
Lecturer; Quy Nhon University; 8/2010 – 3/2016
SKILLS
Programming languages: R, Python, SQL, DAX, Power Query M, Swift, VBA
Visualisation and reporting: Power BI, Power Automate, R Shiny & Markdown, LaTeX, Microsoft Office
Statistical software: Eviews, Stata, Matlab
Data Analytics Platforms: Databricks, Azure Blob Storage, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
Business Analytics Platforms: SAP, Anaplan, Salesforce
Energy Modelling Platforms: Gorilla Energy Pricing, PLEXOS
Others: Xcode (iOS, macOS)
EDUCATION
Ph.D Econ., Economics Department, Business School, The University of Western Australia (UWA), 2016 – 2020. Thesis title: "Exchange Rates, Prices and Consumption". Supervisors: Prof. Kenneth W. Clements, Economics Department, UWA Business School; A. Prof. Yihui Lan, Accounting and Finance Department, UWA Business School.
Chapter 1 published as Vo, L. and Vo, D. (2022). "The Purchasing Power Parity and Exchange-Rate Economics Half a Century On". Journal of Economic Surveys. Article in press. DOI: 10.1111/joes.12504
Chapter 3 published as Clements, K. W., Si, J. and Vo, L. (2022). "The Law of One Food Price". Open Economies Review. Article in press. DOI: 10.1007/s11079-022-09671-9
Chapter 4 published as Vo, L. (2022). "Understanding International Price and Consumption Disparities". Review of Income and Wealth. Article in press. DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12603
MCom. Fin., School of Economics and Finance, Victoria University of Wellington, 2012 - 2014. Thesis title: "Dependence Structure in Financial Time Series: Applications and Evidence from Wavelet Analysis". Supervisor: Dr. Leigh Roberts, SEF, VUW.
B.A. Econ., Investment Economics Department, National Economics University, 2006 - 2010.
HONOURS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS
Honourable Mention in the Dean's List of Excellent Ph.D Thesis, 2020. UWA Board of the Graduate Research School.
Best Ph.D Paper Award: Macroeconomics, 2020: $A500. Economics Department, UWA Business School.
Vietnam Ministry of Education and Training (MOET)'s Research Grant KX-33, 2019 - 2021: approx. $A35,000.
Conference Travel Grant, 2019: approx. $A1,514. Central Bank of Sri Lanka.
Research Travel Grant, 2019: approx. $A1,830. Research Centre in Business, Economics and Resources (BERG), Ho Chi Minh City Open University.
GRS Travel Award, 2019: $A1,850. UWA Graduate Research School.
HDR Faculty Funding, 2017 - 2019: approx. $A5,100. UWA Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Education.
Australian Postgraduate Award, 2016 - 2020: approx. $A30,000 per annum. The University of Western Australia,
Australian Postgraduate Award Offers, 2015. La Trobe University, University of Tasmania, and Queensland University of Technology.
New Zealand-ASEAN Scholar Award, 2012 - 2014: approx. $NZ25,000 per annum. New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT).
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Peer-reviewer (Web of Science reviewer page)
Nature Communications, 2024. Publisher: Springer
Singapore Economic Review, 2021 - 2022. Publisher: World Scientific
Fulbright Review of Economics and Policy, 2021. Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Case Studies on Transport Policy, 2021. Publisher: Elsevier
Energy, Sustainability and Society, 2021. Publisher: Springer Nature
Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, 2020. Publisher: World Scientific
Financial Innovation, 2018. Publisher: Springer
Economic Notes, 2016. Publisher: Wiley
Conference Discussant and Chairperson
Session 9 ("The COVID-19 Pandemic: Macroeconomic Fundamentals, Information Demand, Market Volatility and Return"), Vietnam Business and Economic Research Conference, Open University, Ho Chi Minh City. Nov 2021.
"Death and Taxes: Does Taxation Matter for Firm Survival?" by Cevik. S and Miryugin, F. IMF Working Paper No. 19/78. Available at: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2019/04/19/Death-and-Taxes-Does-Taxation-Matter-for-Firm-Survival-46712. Discussed at The 12th International Research Conference, Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Colombo. Dec 2019. Published as Cevik. S and Miryugin, F. (2022). "Death and Taxes: Does Taxation Matter for Firm Survival?" Economics and Politics 34: 92 - 122. DOI: 10.1111/ecpo.12188
"Oil Price Fluctuations and Energy Commodity Prices: An Analysis of Asymmetric Effects" by Le, T-H., Chang, Y. and Park, D. Discussed at The 3rd Australasian Commodity Markets Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney. Apr 2019. Published as Le, T-H., Chang, Y. and Park, D. (2020). "Oil Price Fluctuations and Energy Commodity Prices: An Analysis of Asymmetric Effects". Singapore Economic Review, 1-23. DOI: 10.1142/S021759082050037X
Session 28 ("Food and Nutrition 3"), The 64th Annual Conference of the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES), the University of Western Australia, Perth. Feb 2020.
Session 7 ("Energy Economics"), Vietnam Business and Economic Research Conference, Open University, Ho Chi Minh City. Jul 2019.
Various sessions at the Work-in-progress Seminar Series, Economics Department, Business School, The University of Western Australia, Perth. 2017 - 2019.
Dissertation Advisor
McClure, T. (2020). Thesis title: "Economic Forecasting: Can We Trust The IMF?". BCom. (with Honours), Business School, The University of Western Australia.
Nguyen, T. N. V. (2017). Thesis title: "Chemical Release and Bank Loan Contracts: Do Banks Really Care About It?". M.Sc. Fin., College of Management, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan. Published as Chen, I-J., Hasan, I., Lin, C-Y and Nguyen, T. N. V. (2021). "Do Banks Value Borrowers' Environmental Record? Evidence from Financial Contracts". Journal of Business Ethics 174: 687 - 713. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-020-04621-2
Pannilage, N. (2017). Thesis title: "Open-Economy Aspects of Monetary Policy: The Case of Sri Lanka". M.Econ. (by research), Business School, The University of Western Australia.
Tran, D. (2016). Thesis title: "Economics Forecasts: Why, How and When". BCom. (with Honours), Business School, The University of Western Australia.
Training
Information and Record Management Awareness Training. Held by the Information Management and Archive Services, Edith Cowan University. May 2020.
Blended Learning and Echo 360 Essentials. Held by the Education Enhancement Unit, the University of Western Australia. Mar 2020.
Impact Evaluation and Causal Inference for Agricultural and Environmental Interventions. Held by the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. Feb 2020.
DataLab Training Session. Held by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Jul 2019.
Teaching Fellow Program. Held by the University of Western Australia. Feb 2019.
Research Bazaar (digital literacy and computer programming). Held by the Advancing Western Australian Education, the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, and the Forrest Research Foundation. Jan 2018.
Pedagogical Training. Held by Hanoi National University of Education. Apr 2011.
General Accounting Training. Held by National Economics University. Feb 2011.
Memberships
Economic Society of Australia (ESA), Western Australia Branch
Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES), Western Australia Branch
VOLUNTEERING ACTIVITIES
Australian Red Cross, 2021 - 2022
Synergy Spirit, 2021 - 2022
UWA Open Day, 2018 - 2019