Saeed Saffari

Economist | Researcher | Data Analyst

I’m an economist, data analyst, and researcher with a second master’s in Economics and five years of experience in economic research, policy analysis, and data-driven decision-making. I enjoy working with data to uncover insights and turn complex challenges into clear, actionable solutions.

Currently, I’m a Research Assistant at Dalhousie University, focusing on finance with an emphasis on risk analysis as well as health economics and agricultural transition. My previous roles include data and policy analysis at SBTT, where I supported organizations through market research and policy evaluation. I'm always curious, enthusiastic, and eager to collaborate on projects that make a real-world impact.

Looking forward to new opportunities and collaborations. Let’s connect!

Contact:

Email: Saeed.Saffari@dal.ca

LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/saeed-saffari

Github: Github.com/saeed-saffari

Resume

Research Interest

Financial Economics
Public Economics
Policy Evaluation

Health Economics
Market Research
Business Analysis

News

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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