%================================================= %% 2 percentage signs represent comments for code; % 1 percentage sign represents commented out code %% LaTeX-style CV with biblatex package usage %% Paul L. Tran %% Last updated: 10 Dec, 2025 %================================================= %================================================= \documentclass[a4paper, 10pt]{article} %% Loading .sty file \usepackage{tran_paul_le_cv} %% Adding space before section headings \titlespacing{\section}{0pt}{2ex}{1ex} %% Entering in name and information \name{Paul L. Tran} \info{Office: & \href{https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/economics/ph-d-program/}{Department of Economics},\\ & College of Liberal Arts,\\ & University of Texas at Austin,\\ & 2225 Speedway,\\ & BRB 2.128, C3100,\\ & Austin, Texas 78712\\ \textbf{Citizenship}: & \textbf{United States of America}\\ Cell: & +1 (512) 704-3025\\ Email: & \href{mailto:pltran@utexas.edu}{pltran@utexas.edu}\\ Website: & \href{https://paulletran.com/}{https://paulletran.com/} } %================================================= %================================================= %% Setting up bibliography \addbibresource{tran_paul_le_cv_wps.bib} % \addbibresource{tran_paul_le_cv_wips.bib} \DeclareSourcemap{ \maps[datatype = bibtex, overwrite]{ \map{ \step[fieldset = month, null] } } } \ExecuteBibliographyOptions{useprefix = true} %% Add selected items from .bib files to be shown \addtocategory{wps}{ tran_fomcnn_jmp, tran_opecnn, } % \addtocategory{wips}{} %================================================= %================================================= \begin{document} \maketitle \thispagestyle{firststyle} \section{Education} \begin{tabular}{p{4cm} p{2.5cm} p{3.6cm} p{4.1cm}} 2020--May 2026 (Expected) & \textbf{PhD} & Economics & University of Texas at Austin \end{tabular} \begin{compactitem} \item Dissertation: ``Essays on Applications of Text Analysis in Macroeconomics'' \end{compactitem} %% Putting standard vertical spacing of 1em due to compactitem and tabular environments not playing nice with each other \vspace{1em} \begin{tabular}{p{4cm} p{2.5cm} p{3.6cm} p{4.1cm}} 2023 & \textbf{MS en Passant} & Economics & University of Texas at Austin\\ 2017 & \textbf{BA} & Mathematics, \newline Mathematical Economics & Pomona College \end{tabular} \section{Research Interests} \begin{compactitem}\parskip = 0cm \item \textbf{Fields}: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics \item \textbf{Methods}: Text Analysis, Machine Learning %% Uncomment the following line to display the total value of publications, submissions, and so on that are included in the %% calculation of sumpapers (see .sty file for definition). % \item I have authored or co-authored \numberstringnum{\getrefnumber{sumpapers}} publications on economic topics. A list of these appear below. \end{compactitem} \section{Dissertation Committee and References} \begin{tabular}{p{5.6cm} p{6.6cm}} \textbf{Olivier Coibion (Co-Supervisor)} \newline Malcolm Forsman Centennial Professor \newline Department of Economics \newline University of Texas at Austin \newline \href{mailto:ocoibion@austin.utexas.edu}{ocoibion@austin.utexas.edu} \newline +1 (512) 475-8537 & \textbf{Christoph Boehm (Co-Supervisor)} \newline Associate Professor \newline Department of Economics \newline University of Texas at Austin \newline \href{mailto:cboehm@utexas.edu}{cboehm@utexas.edu} \newline +1 (734) 548-1090\\ &\\ \textbf{Saroj Bhattarai} \newline Associate Professor \newline Department of Economics \newline University of Texas at Austin \newline \href{mailto:saroj.bhattarai@austin.utexas.edu}{saroj.bhattarai@austin.utexas.edu} \newline +1 (512) 475-8539 & \textbf{Amy Handlan} \newline Yang Family Assistant Professor in Economics \newline Department of Economics \newline Brown University \newline \href{mailto:amy\_handlan@brown.edu}{amy\_handlan@brown.edu} \end{tabular} %% Adding working papers, works in progress, and publications .bib files %% You can include \printbib outside of the publications environment. They just won't be counted towards sumpapers (see .sty file for definition) \begin{publications} \printbib{wps} % \printbib{wips} \end{publications} \section{Presentations} \begin{tabular}{l p{14.3cm}} 2025 & Texas Macro Job Candidate Conference (College Station, TX), IMIM Rising Stars Seminar Series \newline (Virtual) \end{tabular} \section{Teaching History}\label{sec:teaching_history} \begin{compactitem}\parskip = 0cm \item Since Fall 2024, student evaluations have rated my teaching 4.6 out of 5 on average. \item Since Fall 2020, student evaluations have rated my teaching assistance 4.4 out of 5 on average. \item I earned an \href{https://ctl.utexas.edu/teaching-preparation-series}{Advanced Teaching Preparation Certificate} in 2023 from the University of Texas at Austin. \end{compactitem} %% Putting standard vertical spacing of 1em due to compactitem and tabular environments not playing nice with each other \vspace{1em} \begin{tabular}{p{2.3cm} p{3.1cm} p{2.3cm} p{6.4cm}} University of \newline Texas at Austin & \textbf{Assistant Instructor} & Fall 2024--2025 & Introduction to Macroeconomics\\ & \textbf{Teaching Assistant} & Spring 2026 & Time Series Econometrics, Sahil Ravgotra\\ & & Spring 2024 & Macro and the Labor Market \newline (MA course), Andreas Mueller\\ & & & Labor Economics\newline (MA course), Gerald Oettinger\\ & & Fall 2021--2023 & Introduction to Microeconomics \newline (Synchronous Massive Online Course \newline for fall), Charity-Joy Acchiardo, \newline Wayne Geerling, Dirk Mateer\\ & & Summer 2022 & Health Economics, Helen Schneider\\ & & Fall 2020, \newline Spring 2021 & Introduction to Macroeconomics, \newline Michael Sadler, Charity-Joy Acchiardo \end{tabular} \section{Other Employment History} \begin{compactitem}\parskip = 0cm \item Please see the {\hypersetup{linkcolor = black}\hyperref[sec:teaching_history]{``Teaching history''}} section for details about my teaching employment and experience. \end{compactitem} %% Putting standard vertical spacing of 1em due to compactitem and tabular environments not playing nice with each other \vspace{1em} \begin{tabular}{lll} 2018--2020 & \textbf{Senior Research Assistant} & Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System\\ 2017--2018 & \textbf{Research Assistant} & Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System \end{tabular} \section{Honours and Awards} \begin{tabular}{p{1.6cm} p{6.2cm} p{4.2cm} p{0.95cm}} 2020-- & \textbf{Graduate Teaching Fellowship} & University of Texas at Austin &\\ 2025 & \textbf{PhD Summer Research Fellowship} & University of Texas at Austin & \$5,000\\ 2025 & \textbf{Empirical Macro Economics Policy \newline Center of Texas Dissertation Funding} & University of Texas at Austin & \$1,919\\ 2024 & \textbf{PhD Summer Research Fellowship} & University of Texas at Austin & \$5,000\\ 2023 & \textbf{PhD Summer Research Fellowship} & University of Texas at Austin & \$3,000\\ 2017 & \textbf{Distinction in Economics Senior Exercise} & Pomona College &\\ 2016 & \textbf{Harry G. Steele Scholarship} & Pomona College & \$4,000\\ 2014--2015 & \textbf{Pomona College Scholar} & Pomona College &\\ 2013 & \textbf{Flextronics Texas Scholarship} & Pomona College & \$1,000 \end{tabular} \section{Service} \begin{tabular}{l p{13.8cm}} External & \href{https://paulletran.com/econ-grad-app-deadlines/}{https://paulletran.com/econ-grad-app-deadlines/} Creator and Maintainer (2019--) \end{tabular} \section{Miscellaneous Information} \begin{compactitem}\parskip = 0cm \item \textbf{Programming:} Matlab, Python, Bash, SAS, \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAME_(database)}{FAME}, (P)SQL, R, Stata, EViews, \LaTeX \item \textbf{Front-end Development:} Vanilla HTML, CSS, JS, Jekyll \item \textbf{Applications:} Visual Studio Code, Emacs, Git, Sublime Text, RStudio, Tableau, Microsoft Office \item \textbf{Operating Systems:} Unix, Linux, Windows \item \textbf{Languages:} English (native), Vietnamese (native) \end{compactitem} \end{document} %=================================================