About

• Senior Economist, Risk Modeling at Zillow, (March 2021 – current)

• Adjunct Professor, Econometrics at the University of Southern California (January 2021 – current)

• Tech Roundtable Chair at NABE, (November 2020 – current)

• Consulting Economist at Metrosight (January 2021 – March 2021)

• Chief Technology Officer at Universal Standard Housing (August 2020 – December 2020)

• Director of Analytics and Economics at Universal Standard Housing (March 2020 – August 2020)
  Leading work on developing predictive analytics for real estate.

• Chief Economist at Clutter (September 2019 – March 2020)
  Leading work on developing data-driven business strategies.

• Senior Data Scientist at Clutter (March 2019 – August 2019)
  Advanced data analytics on the growth side.

• Research Data Scientist at psyML (July 2018 – March 2019)
  Maintaining ETL process, building data pipelines, research on predictive modeling for spatial and social network data, development and implementation of deep learning and econometric models.

• Data Scientist at MD Insider (May 2017 – July 2018)
  Developing predictive models for big data and implementing data engineering solutions.

• Teaching Assistant – University of Southern California (2012-2014, 2016 – 2017)
  Undergraduate
  ECON 203: Principles of Microeconomics
  ECON 303: Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
  ECON 317 Introduction to Statistics
  Graduate
  ECON 513 Practice of Econometrics (teaching material)
  ECON 603 Microeconomic Theory II
  ECON 609 Econometric Theory
  ECON 611 Probability and Statistics for Economists

•  Graduate Fellow at the USC Dornsife INET Institute for New Economic Thinking (2014-2016)

•  Research Assistant for Hashem Pesaran (2015)

•  Intern at the Economic Institute of the National Bank of Poland, Warsaw, Poland (2010)

• Teaching Assistant – Linköping University (2009)
  Undergraduate Macroeconomics

•  Intern Gdansk Institute for Market Economics, Warsaw, Poland Summer (2009)

•  Consulting (self-employed) (2007-2011)
  arket Research – Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.

• Summer Research Award, University of Southern California (2016)

• USC Dornsife INET Graduate Fellowship, University of Southern California (2014-2016)

• Research Award, University of Southern California Department of Economics (Summer 2014)

• Research Fellowship, University of Southern California Institute for Economic Policy Research (Summer 2013)

• Merit Fellowship, University of Southern California (2011 – 2017)

I am actively involved in organizing events with the National Association for Business Economics (NABE). Check out our upcoming conferences on technology and economics!

• North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (2016)

• Discussant at the Rena Sivitanidou Annual Research Symposium, University of Southern California (2016)

• USC Dornsife INET Conference on Networks, University of Southern California (2015)

insideBIGDATA Interview: Ida Johnsson, Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Economics at USC

I am passionate about health, fitness, and sourdough baking.

I speak 7 languages 5 of which fluently and I speak Spanish at home since my husband is from Mexico (and also happens to be a PhD economist).

I love animals (all of them and especially fluffy ones) and nature, with lakes surrounded by pine forests topping the list.