Cristian Camilo Chica Castaño
PhD in Mathematics and Head of Data at Dapper.
I lead a 9-person data and AI engineering team at Dapper, building regulatory-intelligence infrastructure across 10+ markets in Latin America and the Middle East. My research touches multiple fields: algorithmic pricing, reinforcement learning and two-sided markets.
Trajectory
Now
Dapper
Senior Data Scientist to Head of Data.
Previously
Morgan Stanley
Quantitative Strategist (NYC).
Foundation
PhD, Mathematics, University of Minnesota
Multi-agent reinforcement learning & algorithmic collusion.
Research assistant
Harvard Business School
Research Assistant (2018–2021) to Jorge Tamayo and coauthors.
Explore
My papers, CV and code.
Research
Papers on algorithmic collusion, two-sided markets, and dynamic pricing.
Projects
Product space & country space
Python notebooks to build product and country spaces from trade data. The code behind "Analysis of the Offshoring Network" and my master's thesis.
Regulatory data infrastructure
RAG, agentic ETL and data-quality systems for regulatory data across 10+ markets, built with the data and AI team at Dapper.
Work with me
Advising & collaborations
Open to advisory work, research collaborations and tutoring on:
- Algorithmic pricing and collusion risk
- Game-theoretic and IO modeling
- Data and LLM infrastructure for regulatory data
- Math tutoring (PhD level)