Gabriela Coada

Undergraduate Researcher

Emory University

Biography

Gabriela Coada is a Junior at Emory University studying Computer Science and Economics. She is currently an undergraduate researcher in the Economics Department, under the mentorship of Professor David Jacho-Chavez. Currently, she is working on a project with researchers at the Bank of Canada using the Bank’s proprietary yearly Bitcoin Omnibus Survey to investigate cryptocurrency ownership. Present weekly on research progress and findings to SURE mentor and project stakeholders. Some of her skills include pulling data using SQL, data processing with STATA and R, creating maps and other visualizations, and communicating findings to stakeholders.

Interests

Economics
Data Science
Statistics

Education

Computer Science and Economics, 2021-2025
Emory University

Experience

Undergraduate Researcher

Emory University Department of Economics

April 2023 – Present Atlanta

Partnered with Bank of Canada research team to investigate and analyze impact of cryptocurrency ownership in Canada.
Utilized statistical language Stata (self-taught) to cleanse, process and facilitate analysis of >20,000 observation dataset.
Performed statistical regression analyses and prepared graphical presentation of results and findings.
Invited to speak at the “2023 4th Joint Annual Conference on Expectations” in Ottawa, Canada, and presented this project to over a hundred professors, researchers, and experts in economics.

Software Engineer Intern

Rainforest

May 2022 – August 2022 Atlanta

Joined a startup fintech company to develop technology for independent software vendors (ISVs) to embed payments into their product.
Main responsibility at the beginning was creating forms for the Know-Your-Customer (KYC) component of the application. Created and designed a go-to-market product that was successfully utilized within one month.
Present weekly/monthly progress updates to dozens of clients and corporations, including executive management team and investors.
Rapidly learned Go within 3 weeks; with heavy utilization of Python, Vue JS and Rainforest technology to facilitate collection, storage and accessibility of essential client data.