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My research interests include Econometrics, Big Data, Machine Learning/Text as Data (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI, and Climate Finance. I am also interested in applying Artificial Intelligence methods to answer macro-finance and causal inference questions.


In August 2024, I was visiting the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business as a Young Scholar.


I received my PhD in Economics and Data Science from the University of Montreal. Before that, I earned an MSc in Statistics and Economics, and have worked as an economist at the Bank of Canada, the IMF, and the World Bank, as well as an AI Scientist in the IT Industry. Additionally, I served as an AI and Big Data Research Advisor to the UNDP and the Government of Benin. I have been honored as a Rising Star in Management Science & Engineering and also recognized as a Becker Friedman Institute Macro-Finance Research Young Scholar.


Please see my CV for more details.


Recent and Upcoming Talks:

  • 4th BIS IFC Workshop on Data Science in Central Banking (Rome-Bank of Italy, February 2025)
  • Financial Econometrics Meets Machine Learning (FinEML) Conference (Lugano, November 2024)
  • Society for Economic Dynamics Annual Meeting (SED 2024, Barcelona)
  • International Association for Applied Econometrics (IAAE) Annual Conference (Greece, June 2024)
  • BFI Macro-Finance Research Program Summer Session for Young Scholars (Chicago, August 2024)
  • 39th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Econometrics Study Group (Toronto, October 2024)
  • Conference on Real-Time Data Analysis, Methods and Applications (Ottawa, October 2024)
  • Econometric Society North American Summer Meeting (Nashville, June 2024)
  • Stanford University "Rising Stars" Workshop (California, April 2024)
  • ECONDAT 2024 spring meeting: Economics with Nontraditional Data and Analytical Tools (London, May 2024)
  • 17th Financial Risks International Forum on "Big Data and Algorithmic Finance" (Paris, March 2024)
  • Bank of Canada CEA 2024 Session: "Monetary Policy and Expectations: Lessons from Survey and Big Data"
  • Bank of Canada Data Science Research Group Seminar
  • Bank of England (BoE)

    • Contacts:

    Email: firmin.ayivodji@umontreal.ca

    Phone: (514) 343-6111 #37386

    Office: Lionel-Groulx Building, Office C-6070-10

    3150 Jean brillant, Université de Montréal

    Montréal, Québec, H3T 1N8, Canada.