Scholar
Angelo Mele
Google Scholar ID: w50a2ncAAAAJ
Wayfair
Citations & Impact
Citations
538
H-index
9
i10-index
9
Publications
20
Co-authors
20
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Published multiple papers including 'Vulnerability Webs: Systemic Risk in Software Networks', 'A Strategic Model of Software Dependency Networks', 'A model of inter-organizational network formation', 'Homophily and Community Structure at Scale: An Application to a Large Professional Network'
- - Received IDIES Seed Funding Grant
- - Papers accepted or published in journals such as Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, AEA Papers and Proceedings, Review of Economics and Statistics
Research Experience
- - Summer 2025: Joined Wayfair as an Economist
- - April 2025: Seminar at George Mason University, Department of Statistics
- - November 2024: New version of the paper on software networks
- - November 15, 2024: Seminar presentation at University of Glasgow
- - November 5, 2024: Seminar at Tippie School of Business - University of Iowa
- - October 2024: Presented 2 papers at Midwest Econometrics Group 2024 at University of Kentucky
- - August 2024: Presentation at ESIF ML+AI Conference in Cornell
- - July 2024: Presentation at Workshop on Empirical Estimation of Games in Stony Brook
- - June 2024: Paper on software networks presented at EC24 in Yale
- - April 2024: Presented at the Conference on Peer Effects and Networks at Tippie SChool of Business - University of Iowa
- - February 2024: New version of the working paper 'A Strategic Model of Software Dependency Networks' with Co-Pierre Georg, Cornelius Fritz, and Michael Schweinberger
- - December 2023: Finished sabbatical at UPENN and returned to JHU Carey
- - August 2023: Started sabbatical at UPENN Economics Department
- - August 2023: Paper 'A model of inter-organizational network formation' (with Shweta Gaonkar) accepted at Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
- - May 2023: Paper 'Homophily and Community Structure at Scale: An Application to a Large Professional Network' (with Juan Nelson Martinez Dahbura, Shota Komatsu, and Takanori Nishida) published in AEA Papers and Proceedings 2023
- - April 2023: Received IDIES Seed Funding Grant to study software dependency networks (with Co-Pierre Georg)
- - January 2023: Paper 'Approximate Variational Estimation for a Model of Network Formation' (with Lingjiong Zhu) published in Review of Economics and Statistics 105 (1): 113–124
- - January 2023: New paper 'Homophily and Community Structure at Scale: An Application to a Large Professional Network' (with Juan Nelson Martinez Dahbura, Shota Komatsu, and Takanori Nishida) forthcoming at AEA Papers and Proceedings
Education
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Background
- - Economist and Data Scientist
- - Works in the Pricing Algorithms team at Wayfair, using causal inference, machine learning, and applied econometrics to optimize pricing
- - Studies how social and strategic interactions shape individual and aggregate socioeconomic outcomes
- - Uses a mix of economic theory, econometrics, machine learning, applied probability, and computational methods
- - Was an Associate Professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School
- - Had affiliations with the Hopkins Population Center, the Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science, and the Data Science and AI Institute
