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Carlos Carvalho - The University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business. Austin, TX, UNITED STATES

Carlos Carvalho

Professor of Statistics, Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management | The University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business

Austin, TX, UNITED STATES

Using Bayesian statistics to solve problems in finance, genetics and other complex fields

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Areas of Expertise (13)

Computer Modeling

Stock Market and Investments

Stock Volatility

Pricing Models

Statistical Research

Dynamic Estimation

Multivariate Problems

Bayesian Statistics

Advanced Statistics

Econometrics

Statistical Computation

Graphical Models

Parallel Statistical Computation

Biography

Carlos M. Carvalho is a statistician, researcher, and educator who uses Bayesian statistics to address high-dimensional problems from a variety of fields, including finance and capital markets, genetics, health care, and political campaigns.

Carvalho is an associate professor of statistics in the department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management at the McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin.

Carvalho was previously on the faculty at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Duke University, and IBMEC in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

He is a CBA Foundation Advisory Council Centennial Fellow, since 2012, and he was awarded The Donald D. Harrington Fellowship by UT Austin in 2009. He has been an analytics consultant with Dell, Inc. since 2013.

His current research includes:
1) Advanced statistics and econometrics in asset pricing problems;
2) Causal inference in high dinemsional settings;
3) Dimensionality reduction in large-scale multivariate problems;
4) Sparse models for high-dimensional covariance matrices;
5) Graphical models and sparse factor models;
6) Model search/selection in linear models and graphical models;
7) Dynamic graphical models in multivariate financial time series and portfolio analysis;
8) Conditional variance models and multivariate stochastic volatility;
9) Sequential estimation and particle filtering; and
10 Parallel statistical computation.

Education (3)

Duke University: Ph.D., Statistics 2006

Thesis: "Structure and Sparsity in High-Dimensional Multivariate Analysis".

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro: M.Sc., Statistics 2002

Thesis: "Bayesian Analysis of Stochastic Volatility Models with Multiple Regimes".

IBMEC Business School: B.Sc., Economics 1999

Rio de Janiero, Brazil

Media Appearances (2)

The Science Behind Big Data

OPEN Magazine  print

2012-04-01

If there’s a statistician’s version of a Swiss Army knife, it might be Bayesian analysis. A technique for finding patterns in complex systems, Carvalho first used it to pinpoint genes that affect a cancer patient’s chances of recovery.

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Sorry, Stanford - You Should Pay Taxes Too

The Stanford Review  online

2018-02-17

Borrowing anecdotes from University of Texas at Austin professors Carlos Carvalho and Richard Lowery featured in The Hill, important research would not suffer if tuition waivers were taxed.

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Articles (6)

Carlos M. Carvalho Citations


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Listing of top scholarly works by Carlos M. Carvalho.

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Decoupling Shrinkage and Selection in Bayesian Linear Models: A Posterior Summary Perspective


Journal of the American Statistical Association

2015-04-22

This article revisits the venerable problem of variable selection in linear models.

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DYNACARE: Dynamic Cardiac Arrest Risk Estimation


Journal of Machine Learning Research

2013-01-01

In this paper, we present two dynamic cardiac risk estimation models, focusing on different temporal signatures in a patient’s risk trajectory.

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Aggregation and the PPP Puzzle in a Sticky-Price Model


Social Sciences Research Network

2009-12-31

We study the purchasing power parity (PPP) puzzle in a multi-sector, two-country, sticky-price model.

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Particle Learning and Smoothing


Statistical Science

2009-12-31

We show that Particle Learning (PL) outperforms existing particle filtering alternatives and proves to be a competitor to MCMC.

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Heterogeneity in Price Stickiness and the Real Effects of Monetary Shocks


Frontiers in Macroeconomics

2005-12-31

This paper introduces sectoral heterogeneity in price stickiness into an otherwise standard sticky price model to study how it affects the dynamics of monetary economies.

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