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Past Employees
Alachua Haskins
Alachua
Haskins is a recent graduate of
Lincoln
High School
. She returned in December from a four-month study abroad program in
Israel
, where, along with learning about the culture, the people, and the religion,
she became very interested in foreign economics. At
Lincoln
, she took an economics course and continued to be fascinated by the subject,
which led her to a position at CEFA. She will be traveling to
Poland
in September to spend nine-months working with a rabbi to help rebuild the
devastated Jewish community. After Alachua returns from this adventure, she
plans on going to university to major in Judaic Studies, and continue on to
Rabbinical school.
Email: aabosag@titus.cefa.fsu.edu
Research Assistant
Abdulaziz Abosag
Abdulaziz
Abosag is a Master student at the Department of Economics at FSU. He has a BA
with Honors in Economics and Minor in Mathematics and Business from St. Thomas
University in Canada in 2007. He is planning to obtain his PhD in Finance. He has
experience with STATA, MATLAB and Excel.
Email: aabosag@titus.cefa.fsu.edu
Dongyku
Won
 Dongkyu
Won
is a current Doctoral student in FSU. He got his Master and Bachelor degree from
Sogang
University
in
South Korea
in 2001 and 2003 respectively. Before working for CEFA,
Dongkyu
Won
worked as a research assistant for Korea Energy
Economics Institute(KEEI) and the staff in an account section of an automobile
company, Kia motors. Thus, he has a experience in collecting and analyzing the
data as well as in dealing with accounting stuffs. He is proficient with many
statistical software packages, such as SAS, Microsoft Excel, GAUSS and MATLAB.
Econometrics and Public Finance are his major concerns. Especially,
Dongkyu
Won
hopes to design an
efficient taxation system minimizing the distortion.
Jinjin Guo
Jinjin Guo, as a student of Economics
both for MS from Florida State University and BA from Beijing University
of Chemical Technology, China. She has gained a strong background in this
displine. Before working
for CEFA, she worked on market analysis, product development and marketing for
the Beijing
representative office of Asianwok.com,
LLC, an e-commerce trade company with its headquarters in Los Angeles, CA.
She is proficient with various statistical and business software packages,
such as Microsoft Excel, Word, Stata, Quickbook and is currently working
on SAS and E-Synchronist. Her research is focused on Econometric analysis,
Economic forecasting and Business/Marketing analysis. She had been working
in a "partnership" position with CEFA and the Leon
County/Tallahassee Economic Development Council from May, 2006 to July,
2006. She is enthusiastic and excited about her research projects for
CEFA. And she is also the CEFA webmaster. She is studying the CFA
(Chartered Financial Analyst) material, intending to pursue the CFA
charter in the future.
Wei-Shiun Chang
Wei-Shiun Chang is a current Doctoral student in FSU. He finished his
Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and Master’s degree in Business
Administration in Taiwan. He also got a Master of Science at IUP in the
United States in 2005, majoring in labor law and safety management. He
worked as a marketing researcher for a telecommunication company and a
research assistant while he was doing his master in Taiwan. Wei-Shiun
serves as a researcher and webmaster for CEFA, he is skilled at SPSS
(working on SAS), Frontpage, and Flash MX. Having an engineering
background, Wei-Shiun has a sense to analyze and solve the problem by
scientific viewpoint. His studies focus on urban development and
environment economics, Wei-Shiun is excited at his researches and projects
in the CEFA and looking forward to publish his work in the near future.
Doug Roe
Doug holds a BS in Economics from Florida State University, which was obtained
from August 2002-2005.Currently, Doug completed his Masters of Science in
Economics at FSU in August 2006.Before coming to CEFA, he served as a frozen and
dairy foods manager at the second largest grocery retailer in America,
Albertsons, Inc., in Tallahassee, FL for three years. Currently he works with
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in Washington, D.C. beginning in
September 2006. Some of his independent research had pertained to labor and
sports economics, as well as demography. Also, he is proficient numerous
statistical software packages, such as Excel, Stata, SAS and EVIEWS. In the
future, he intends to pursue a doctorate in economics after working in the
field.
Abdulbasit Aydin
Abdulbasit "Akif" Aydin
got his Master degree from the FSU
Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in May, 2006. He has a Bachelors degree in Economics from Ankara University
Department of Political Sciences. He plans to make his PhD in Economics. He is
an experienced user of various statistical and mathematical software packages
such as Microsoft Excel and SPSS. In addition, he has experience in designing,
maintaining and administering websites. He is proficient in Html,
PowerPoint, Microsoft FrontPage, Microsoft Access, and Macromedia Dreamweaver.
Previously, Mr. Aydin was a broadcaster on local radio station in Ankara, Turkey,
where he discussed topics including the subject of success, personal
improvement, skills and social issues. Mr. Aydin also worked as webmaster for
CEFA.
Carlos Andrés Proaño M
Carlos Andrés Proaño holds a BA in Finance and Economics from
Quito, Ecuador. For two years, he was the economics section biweekly
columnist for a national newspaper, "Diario Hoy". He also worked for two years
with an industry research company writing economic reports to a target audience
of business owners. In 2003, he worked for the Central Bank of Ecuador as a
junior economic analyst. After being awarded a Fulbright scholarship in 2003, he
applied and was accepted to the Master's program in Financial Mathematics at
Florida State University. the researches and projects Mr. Proaño worked on for CEFA included linear programming modeling, and statistical
analysis related to university research.
Director Emeritus: :Thomas A. Lynch, Ph.D.
lynch@cefa.fsu.edu
Research Associate: :Carter Doyle
carter@cefa.fsu.edu
Research Associate: :Douglas Lee
drlee@cefa.fsu.edu
Research Associate: :Necati Aydin, Ph.D.
naydin@cefa.fsu.edu
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