Cosmin Cioanta

Background

About Cosmin Cioanta

I’m a Finance Ph.D. with experience in Corporate Governance, International Finance Risk Exposure, and M&A, Big Data Collection, Cleaning, Linking, and Analytics in the Financial, Political, and Corporate Governance fields. I also utilize Web Scraping, Financial Modeling, and Machine Learning in Python and R. My strong analytical and conceptual background, ability to think on my feet and present complex topics will allow me to assist organizations in making strategic, data-driven business decisions.Key Competencies:• Python• R• Power BI • Firm Risk Exposure Metrics• Statistical Modeling & Analysis• Textual Analysis• Machine Learning• Web Scraping• Mergers and Acquisitions• Corporate Governance• Political Contributions & Donations• Database Linking & Cleaning• SAS• SQL• GISFunctions used:• INDEX/MATCH,• SUMIF• COUNTIF• IRR• PMT• FV• ROUND• IF/ELSE• NORM.DIST• CONCATENATE• IFERRORCoding/Programming Packages• Scikit• NLTK• BeautifulSoup• TensorFlow• Selenium• Urllib• Lxml• MatchitSome of my Achievements• Designed Web Scraping & Big Data linking and cleaning protocols responsible for 2.5 million unique data points• Designed Machine Learning models for multicategory classification of pieces of legislation with textual analysis• Enhanced the identification of Corporate Lobbying efforts from 1995-2018 down to the individual bill level by 33%• Evaluated the quarterly Political Risk Exposure and Sentiment standing of unique SP1500 and Non SP1500 firmsFun Facts: I am a dual US and EU citizen who loves Formula 1 and Hockey (Go Carolina Hurricanes!). Feel free to reach me at: ccioanta@hotmail.com