Expertise

Aleksandr has been conducing policy research at Visionary Analytics since 2014. Throughout the years he participated in numerous projects in domains of digitalisation, labour markets, and R&D&I. Currently Aleksandr thematically predominantly focuses on analysing the effects of new technologies on the labour market, evaluating the research and innovation landscape in the EU, identifying how advanced data analytical techniques (including data mining and machine learning) can be applied to analyse different phenomenon throughout the EU.

As an Affiliated Senior Researcher at Visionary Analytics, Aleksandr conducts research or evaluation assignments, applying both qualitative and quantitative data analysis methods for different EU clients, including, but not limited to the European Commission (DG EMPL, DG RTD, DG CONNECT), CEDEFOP, and the Joint Research Centre. His area of expertise includes carrying out complex data analysis exercises including running regression analysis, building clustering and classification models, building web scraping / crawling algorithms, working with large data set, carrying out text mining exercises, and more.

Education

• PhD in Economics (ongoing), ISM University of Management and Economics (Lithuania).
• Master of Science (MS) in Computer Modelling (2018), Vilnius University (Lithuania).

Selected projects

• Study On “Support to the Observatory for the Online Platform Economy [Continuation], DG CONNECT, 2021-2023.
• European Research Data Landscape, DG RTD, 2021-2022.
• Evaluation study on the external coherence and synergies of Horizon 2020 within the European research and innovation support system, DG RTD, 2021-2022.