Biography

Valentina Semenova is an economist at the International Monetary Fund in the European Department.

She received her PhD in mathematics from Oxford University, where her research focused on the intersection of big data, AI and economics. She is an associate member of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, and a recent visiting scholar at MIT and the Santa Fe Institute. 

Her research leverages granular data and AI tools to better understand the world we live in - from the influence that individual investors have on asset prices, to the ties between polarization and macroeconomic variables.

Prior to her PhD, Valentina worked at Palantir and Goldman Sachs.
 

 

Recent Publications

Aug 2023
Paper
Oct 2021
Paper
DEBAGREEMENT: A comment-reply dataset for (dis)agreement detection in online debates
John Pougué-Biyong ,  Valentina Semenova ,  Alexandre Matton ,  Rachel Han ,  Aerin Kim ,  Renaud Lambiotte ,  J. Doyne Farmer
May 2021
Blog
Reddit’s self-organised bull runs
Valentina Semenova ,  Julian Winkler
May 2021
INET Working Paper
Feb 2021
Article
How herd behaviour drives action on r/WallStreetBets
Ian Goldin ,  Valentina Semenova ,  Julian Winkler
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Recent Events

13 Jun 24
@12:00

INET Oxford Summer Research Meeting 2024

The event is open to all INET Oxford researchers, staff, visitors, and associate members

In Person Event
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26 Jun 23
@09:00

The Oxford Summer School in Economic Networks

All Day Summer School 26-30 June 2023

In Person Event
Network Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

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