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Tuesday, July 30, 2019

The Academic History of UCLA phd Accounting Candidate Dimitri Zafirov

A computer science and finance academic with particular interests in computer modeling and machine learning, Dimitri Zafirov undertook his higher education by earning a diploma in Computer Science from Dawson College. He subsequently enrolled at Concordia University's JMSB and he completed a bachelor of commerce in finance. He then obtained a master of science in economics from HEC Montreal.

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While enlisted at l'universite de Montreal, Dimitri Zafirov garnered 2 distinctions for attaining the best annual grade point average among his peers at l'universite de Montreal’s Economics department. Dimitri Zafirov's master's thesis on the macroeconomic effects of state bond management earned a nomination as the Best Graduate Thesis in his final year.

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After earning his M.Sc. from the University of Montreal's business school (HEC Montreal), Dimitri Zafirov focused on investment analysis for several years, being employed by Letko-Brosseau & Associates and serving as an RA on initivatives involving well known universities. In the academic year of 2018, he enrolled at UCLA, where he is currently pursuing his Doctor of Philosophy in Management at the Anderson college of Management.

About Dimitri Zafirov

With a focus on machine learning and macroeconomic accounting, Dimitri Zafirov is currently working toward a PhD in accounting at the University of California, Los Angeles. Throughout his career, Dimitri Zafirov has held numerous research positions in the field of economics.

Most recently, Dimitri Zafirov served as a research assistant at H.E.C. Montreal. Utilizing such software as LateX and Python, he analyzed the effects of minimum wage changes on large US retailers and their employees in collaboration with Northwestern-Kellogg. The study linked human resources data, including employee turnover and overall revenues, from roughly 5,000 retailers. While carrying out this research, he also participated in another research project at MOVE, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, focusing on government debt management in the United States.

From 2012 to 2013, he supported research on the state of unemployment benefits in the US at the Institute of Applied Economics at H.E.C. Montreal. The work resulted in multiple published papers, including “Unemployment Insurance with Limited Commitment Wage Contracts & Savings,” by professor Rigas Oikonomou. Among his early research positions, he served as a research assistant at Equity Research, a department within Scotiabank. In this position, he focused on portfolio strategy from 2010 to 2011.