Saeed Saffari

Economist | Researcher | Data Analyst

I’m an economist and data analyst with a second master’s in Economics and five years of experience in research, policy analysis, and data-driven decision-making. I enjoy working with data to uncover insights and support clear, practical solutions.

I’m currently a Data Analyst at the Centre for Planetary Health and Sustainable Care at Dalhousie University. My work focuses on Organizational Life-Cycle Assessment, data analytics, and visualization. I collaborate with teams to analyze complex data and turn findings into clear insights that support planning and decision-making.

Alongside my current role, I contribute to research in finance, health economics, and agricultural transition, using data analysis and evidence-based reasoning to support ongoing studies.

Always happy to connect and exchange ideas. Feel free to reach out anytime.

Contact:

Email: Saeed.Saffari@dal.ca

LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/saeed-saffari

Github: Github.com/saeed-saffari

Resume

Research Interest

Health Economics
Public Economics
Policy Evaluation

Financial Economics
Market Research
Business Analysis

News

October 2025: Joined the Centre for Planetary Health and Sustainable Care at Dalhousie University as a Data Analyst.
August 2025: Attended the Freedom Week Summer School at McGill University, organized by the Institute for Liberal Studies, focusing on poverty, equality, and liberalism in diverse societies.
August 2025: Presented Repurposing Generative AI for Learning: A Topic Modeling Approach Beyond EdTech paper at SEGA 2025 – IEEE Smart World Congress 2025.
July 2025: Our paper Mapping AI Tools in Education: A Topic Modeling Analysis of Cognitive, Metacognitive, and Affective Insights was published with Springer as part of the International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2025).
January 2025: Lecturer in "R/Python in empirical research" workshop at the Atlantic Research Data Center (ARDC).
January 2025: Become a Research Assistant at the Dalhousie University under the supervision of Prof. Najah Attig.
December 2024: Become a Research Assistant at the Health Equity and Policy (HEAP) lab under the supervision of Prof. Mohammad Hajizadeh.
December 2024: Become a Research Assistant at the Dalhousie University under the supervision of Prof. Talan Iscan.
September 2024: Become a Research Assistant at the Mount Saint Vincent University under the supervision of Prof. Michael Pin-Chuan Lin.
January 2024: Become a Research Assistant at the Dalhousie University under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Rosenblum.
September 2023: Become a Teaching Assistant at the Dalhousie University.
September 2023: Recipient of the Faculty of Graduate Scholarship at the Dalhousie University.
September 2023: Accepted in M.A. Economics at the Dalhousie University.
December 2022: Selected as "Top Researcher" among the Economics graduate students at Allameh Tabataba’i University.
September 2022: Successfully defended my Master's thesis titled "The Role of Domestic Value-added in Gross Export with Emphasis on Vertical Specialization in the Global Market".
November 2022: I passed the GRE test with 170 in Quantitative and 162 in Verbal.
June 2021: Enrolled summer school in Economic Complexity organized by the ZHAW School of Management and Law (SML) in collaboration with the University of Lausanne and Harvard Growth Lab.
May 2021: Published an Intra-university paper about "Predict COVID-19 cases with VSIRD model" with Prof. Tavakolian and etc.
April 2021: I joined the group of researchers at the Sharif Business Think Tank.
September 2020: Become a Lecturer of Principles of Programming (Applied Python in Economics) at the University of Tehran.
September 2019: Accepted in M.A. Economics at the Allameh Tabataba'i University. (Top 3% of the nationwide university M.Sc. entrance exam)

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