Last Updated on 11th December 2017

Talitha Speranza
http://talithasperanza.wordpress.com
talitha.speranza@gmail.com | +5521998721077
Rua Marqus de Valena 88/505, 20550-030, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

SKILLS EDUCATION
PROGRAMMING PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO
Expert: MSC IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
R C# Java Decision Support Methods
MySQL C LATEX Expected to April 2018 | Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Cum. GPA: 8.6/10
Advanced: Thesis Advisors: Ricardo Tanscheit and Marley Vellasco
Matlab SQLServer
JavaScript CSS HTML BS IN COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Concluded in December 2015 | Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Familiar:
Cum. GPA: 7.2/10
Python Stata PHP
Undergraduate Thesis Advisors: Gustavo Gonzaga and Ivan Mathias Filho.
EViews VBA

LANGUAGES WORK EXPERIENCE

Portuguese Native GETULIO VARGAS FOUNDATION (FGV)
English Fluent RESEARCH ASSISTANT AT BRAZILIAN INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS (IBRE)
IELTS 8.5/9 (October 2017) April 2016 - Present | Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Main developer and creative force behind BETS R Package. It provides an
Spanish Advanced unied point of access to thousands of Brazilian economic times series
Learned in High School produced by three major centers, besides a range of analytical tools and
Lived in Mexico educational resources.
Italian Intermediate Implementing the Ination R Package. It supplies functions to calculate core
Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Rio de Janeiro ination through well-established as well as novel methods.
Concluded regular course in 2009 Working with Professor Pedro Ferreira on a new methodology to estimate
ination expectations in Brazil and on a model to predict unemployment using
German Basic Facebook data.
Goethe Institut, Rio de Janeiro
Concluded basic module in 2009
PROFESSOR AT FGV MANAGEMENT
Russian Elementary Big Data and Data Science Course
Pushkin State Russian Language Institute October 2016 - Present | Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Moscow, Russia
Teaches Database Management, SQL, Data Mining and Cloud Computing.
Summer Intensive Course 2013
TERRAO ECONMICO | EDITOR AND I.T. MANAGER
RESEARCH March 2016 - Present | So Paulo, SP, Brazil
I write, select and review articles.
MSc Thesis
Developed the website, which I maintain.
Agent-Based Computational Economics
Reinforcement Learning Created Terrao Dados, a Shiny app that aggregates GDP data from World
Monte-Carlo Simulations Bank and IMF. Now I am expanding it to deliver all data available from BETS.

FGV/IBRE UNIVERSIDAD PANAMERICANA | RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Macroeconometrics Jan 2013 May 2013 | Mexico City, Mexico
Kalman Filtering Worked with Professor Iren Castillo-Saldaa, assisting him with data cleansing
VAR, SVAR and VECM Models in VBA and analysis in EViews.

INVESTFLEX | PROGRAMMER ANALYST

April 2012 January 2013 | Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Designed and implemented trading algorithms to run on the stock exhange via
the companys robot, FlexScan.
Developed an automated test framework in Progress Apama and Python.

LECTURES
The Macroeconomics of a Country
Flirting with the Abyss
I Financial Week of Uni-FACEF
August 2017 | Franca, SP, Brazil
Time series Analysis Using the
BETS R Package
Short Course
II International Seminar
on Statistics with R
May 2017 | Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Brazilian Macroeconomics in
the Post Crisis
Millenium Institutes IMIL na Sala de Aula
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Fluminense Federal University
March 2017 | Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
LINKS
Github:// talithafs
LinkedIn:// talitha-speranza
Terrao Econmico:// talitha
BETS code:// nmecsys/BETS
Ination code:// nmecsys/Ination
CESGRANRIO FOUNDATION
SYSTEMS ANALYST
March 2011 March 2012 | Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Worked with Professor Ana Carolina Letichevsky in the Statistics Department.
Envisioned and developed the internal management system, as well as engines
to generate statistics and reports on countrywide examinations data.
INTERN
May 2010 February 2011 | Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO
STUDENT'S TUTOR
March 2008 - June 2010 | Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Computer Programming II: Data Structures and Algorithms
Introduction to Engineering: Robotics
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
NETWORK FOR VULNERABLE RESCUE FOUNDATION
MATHEMATICS AND ENGLISH TEACHER
October 2013 - November 2013 | Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Teached 5-7-year-olds and helped the staff with administrative tasks.
PUBLICATIONS
ACADEMIC
Speranza, T., Ferreira, P., Azevedo, J. (2017). BETS - Brazilian Economic Time Series:
Um Pacote R. In Alcoforado, L. (Org.), Longo, O. (Org.), Statistics with R: inovao no
mercado prossional (1st ed., pp. 41-93). Niteri, RJ, Brazil: LFA.
Speranza, T., Ferreira, P., Azevedo, J. (2017). SARIMA Analysis and Automated
Model Reports with BETS, an R Package. Under review.
BLOGS AND NEWSPAPERS
Selected Articles
Speranza, T. How Would the Economy of an Independent Catalonia be? Resumo do
Mercado. Investing.com. November 23, 2017.
Speranza, T. The Economic Reasons Behind Catalan Separatism. Resumo do
Mercado. Investing.com. November 9, 2017.
Editors Choice
Speranza, T. The Recent FEDs Movement and its Impacts on the Economy. Guide
Investimentos. October 26, 2017.
Speranza, T. Interest Rates Reduction through the Pension Reform. Money Times.
July 4, 2017.
Speranza, T., Oliveira. C. After all, how is the Economy of Portugal? The Slow
Recovery of the Portuguese Economy and Lessons for Brazil. Terrao Econmico.
May 3, 2017.
Speranza, T., Oliveira. C. After all, how is the Economy of Portugal? The Debt Crisis
and the Composition of Government Expenditures. Terrao Econmico &
InfoMoney. May 2, 2017.
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2008 Academic Standout - Center for Science and Technology, PUC-Rio
2009 Academic Excellency - Center for Science and Technology, PUC-Rio
2016 CAPES Foundation Scholarship - 2 years grant