Roumen Vesselinov, PhD

        EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Statistics and Econometrics, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria.
• M.A. Economics, SUNY Albany.
• Fulbright scholar, Econometrics, Brown University, Providence, R.I.

• B.A. Statistics and Econometrics, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria.
  
  EMPLOYMENT
  

• Current: Visiting/Adjunct Assistant Professor, Queens College, CUNY.
• Manager of Statistical Consulting Laboratory, University of South Carolina, Statistics Department.
• Head of Statistical Methodology Division, National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria, and member of Eurostat Directors of Methodology group (DIME).
• Senior Statistical Analyst, Policy Research Associates, (PRA) Inc., Delmar, New York.
  
  AWARDS
  
• Recipient of the Pamela W. Young Excellence Award, University of South Carolina as Manager of Statistical Consulting Laboratory.
  
  PUBLICATIONS

  AREA 1: STATISTICS AND PUBLIC HEALTH

• The Impact of Treatment on the Public Safety Outcomes of Mental Health Court Participants, American Behavioral Scientist, February 2013, 57: 231-243, with Keator, K., Callahan, L., Steadman, H.
• A Multi-Site Study of the Use of Sanctions and Incentives in Mental Health Courts, Law and Human Behavior, 2013, Feb;37(1):1-9, with Callahan, L., Steadman, H., Tillman, S.
• Effect of Mental Health Courts on Arrests and Jail Days: A Multi-Site Study, Archives of General Psychiatry, 2011, 68(2):167-72, with Steadman, H., Redlich, A., Callahan, L., Robbins, P.
• The use of mental health court appearances in supervision, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 2010, 33, 272-277, with Redlich, A., Steadman, H., Callahan, L., Robbins, P.,  Özdogru, A.
• Treating Visual Speech Perception to Improve Speech Production in Non-Fluent Aphasia. Stroke, 2009;40; 853-858, with Fridriksson, J., Baker, M.J., Whiteside, J., Eoute, D., Moser, D.,  Rorden, C.
• Predicting Depressive Symptoms and Grief after Pregnancy Loss, Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2008 Dec; 29(4): 274-279, with Mann, J.R., McKeown, R.E., Bacon, J., Bush, F.
• Do Antenatal Religious and Spiritual Factors Impact the Risk of Postpartum Depressive Symptoms?, Journal of Women's Health, 2008 Jun; 17(5): , 745-755, with Mann, J.R., McKeown, R.E., Bacon, J., Bush, F.
• Religiosity, Spirituality and Tobacco Use by Pregnant Women, Southern Medical Journal, 2007 Sep; 100(9): 867-872, with Mann, J.R., McKeown, R.E., Bacon, J., Bush, F.
• Predicting Depressive Symptoms and Grief after Pregnancy Loss, Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2008 Dec; 29(4): 274-279, with Mann, J.R., McKeown, R.E., Bacon, J., Bush, F.
• Do Antenatal Religious and Spiritual Factors Impact the Risk of Postpartum Depressive Symptoms?, Journal of Women's Health, 2008 Jun; 17(5): , 745-755, with Mann, J.R., McKeown, R.E., Bacon, J., Bush, F
• Religiosity, Spirituality and Antenatal Anxiety in Southern U.S. Women. Archives of Women’s Mental Health, 2008; 11(1): 19-26, with Mann, J.R., McKeown, R.E., Bacon, J., Bush, F.
• Religiosity, Spirituality and Depressive Symptoms in Pregnant Women, International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 2007; 37(3): 301-313, with Mann, J.R., McKeown, R.E., Bacon, J., Bush, F.
• Are married/cohabiting women less likely to experience pregnancy loss. Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association, 2007 Dec; 103(9): 266-267, with Mann, J.R., McKeown, R.E., Bacon, J., Bush, F.
• Regression Tree Approach to Studying Factors Influencing Acoustic Voice Analysis, Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 2006, 58, 274-288, with Deliyski, D., Shaw, H., Evans, M.
• Utilization of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Services by Stroke Patients, Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology, Volume 13, Number 4, 2005, 223-231, with Fridriksson, J., Frank, E.
• Persistence and Stability of Delusions Over Time, Comprehensive Psychiatry, Vol. 45, No. 5, September/October 2004, 317-324, with Appelbaum, P., Robbins, P.
• Multiple Models Approach to Violence Risk Assessment Among People with Mental Disorder, Criminal Justice and Behavior, 2004, Vol. 31, No 3, 324-340, with Banks, S., Robbins, P., Silver, E., Steadman, H., Monahan, J., Mulvey, E., Appelbaum, P., Grisso, T., Roth, L.
• Perceived Coercion at Hospital Admission and Adherence to Mental Health Treatment after Discharge, Psychiatric Services, 2003,54, 103-105, with Rain, S., Williams, V., Robbins, P., Monahan, J., Steadman, H.
• Violent Thoughts and Violent Behavior Following Hospitalization for Mental Disorder, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2000, 68, 388-398, with Grisso T., Davis, J., Appelbaum, P.,  Monahan, J.
  
  

  AREA 2: ECONOMETRICS AND MACROECONOMICS

• The Influence of Country-Level Governance on Business Environment and Entrepreneurship. A Global Perspective., Amfiteatru Economic, Vol. XVII, No. 38, February 2015, with A. Groşanu, C. Bota-Avram, P. R. Rachisan, A. Tiron-Tudor.
• New Composite Indicators for Bulgarian Business Cycle, International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied Research, 2012, Vol. 5, issue 2, 101-111.
• Bulgarian Business Cycle and the Economic Crisis, conference proceedings, 14th International Conference on the Development of Values and Competitiveness in the EU, November 2011, Sofia, Bulgaria.
• New Coinciding and Leading Indicators for the Bulgarian Business Cycle, conference proceedings, Conference at Department of Statistics and Econometrics, University of National and World Economy, November 2011, Sofia, Bulgaria.
• Data Integration Application with Coarsened Exact Matching,  conference proceedings, ESSnet Data Integration Workshop, November 2011, Madrid, Spain, with Kotzeva, M..
• Exact Matching for Data Integration. Evidence from Bulgaria, conference proceedings, ITACOSM, June 2011, Pisa, Italy, 215-218, with Kotzeva, M.
• Dynamics of Demographic Processes in Bulgaria, University of National and World Economy, conference proceedings, 2010, Sofia, Bulgaria, 147-152, with Kaloyanov, T.
• Classification and Regression Tree Models, conference proceedings, University of National and World Economy, 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria, 264-269.
• Chronology of the Bulgarian Business Cycle, Statistika, 1/2008, NSI, Sofia, Bulgaria, 22-43.
  Periodicity of Bulgarian Economy, Statistika, 1, 2004, Sofia, Bulgaria, 22-41.
• Business Cycle Forecasting, Economic Thought, 1/2001, Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, 61-73.
• Modeling of the Business Cycle, Statistika, 6/2000, National Statistical Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria, 38-54.
• An Emerging Economic Factor, 2000, in Minchev, O., Ratchev, V., Lessenski, M., Editors, “Bulgaria for NATO 2002,” IRIS, Sofia, Bulgaria, 61-70.
• Trends and Regularities in the Economic Development of Bulgaria, Bulgarian Quarterly, 1991, 85-101.

        RESEARCH & CONSULTING

• 2012, Duolingo, Duolingo Effectiveness Study. With John Grego.
• 2013/14 National Institute of Justice (NIJ) grant, Juvenile Mental Health Courts, Policy Research Associates (PRA), PI - L. Callahan.

• 2012/13 MacArthur Foundation grant, Mental Health Courts, PRA, PI - H. Steadman.
• 2007/10 National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grant, Efficacy of Laryngeal High-Speed Videoendoscopy, USC, PI – D. Deliyski.
  
• 2008/9, Rosetta Stone®, Measuring the Effectiveness of Rosetta Stone®.
• 2009, Rosetta Stone®, Measuring the Attitude and Motivation of Rosetta Stone® Users.
• 2009, Rosetta Stone®, Comparative Analysis of Motivation of Different Language Learning Software.
• 2007/8 Statistical Support for South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. PI John Grego.
• 2006/8 NIJ grant, Poly-Victimization History among Girls Adjudicated Delinquent, USC, PI – Dana DeHart.
• 2006/8 Analysis of South Carolina Bar Judicial Survey, South Carolina Bar Association.
• 2006/7 Statistical Analysis for South Carolina Business One Stop, South Carolina Department of Revenue.
• 2006/7 Statistical Support for South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. PI John Grego.
• 2006/7 NIH R21 grant, Cortical Plasticity Following Hemispherectomy. The Effects of Intervention, USC, PI - S. de Bode.
• 2005 Statistical Analysis of the South Carolina Report Card Surveys, South Carolina Education Oversight Committee.
• 2004/07 South Carolina Seat Belt Study, South Carolina Department of Transportation. PI John Grego.
• 2003/04 NIJ grant, Validating the Brief Jail Mental Health Screen, PRA, PI – H. Steadman.
• 2003/04 MacArthur Foundation grant, Involuntary Outpatient Commitment, PRA, MacArthur Research Network on Mandated Community Treatment, PI – H. Steadman.
• 2001/02 Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) grant, Mental Health and Juvenile Justice, PRA, PI – H. Steadman.
• 2000/03 NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant, Violence Risk Assessment Software, PRA, Phase I and II, PI – H. Steadman.
• 2000/02 Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) grant, Project for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness, PRA, PI – D. Dennis.
• 2000/02 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) grant, Women, Co-Occurring Disorders and Violence Study, PRA, PI – V. Williams.
• 1996/01 MacArthur Foundation grant, Violence Risk Assessment Study, PRA, PI – H. Steadman and J. Monahan.
  
  
  TEACHING EXPERIENCE
  

• 2008 – present, ECON 101, Introduction to Macroeconomics, Economics Dept., Queens College, CUNY.
• 2008 – present, ECON 206, Macroeconomic Analysis, Economics Department, Queens College, CUNY.
• 2008 – present, ECON 382, Introduction to Econometrics, Economics Department, Queens College, CUNY.
• 2010/12, ECON, Econometric Methods and Models, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria.
• 2010/12, STAT, Statistical Methods for Data Mining, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria
• 2006/08, STAT 720, Time Series Analysis, Statistics Department, University of South Carolina.
• 2006/08, STAT 700, Applied Statistics, Statistics Department, University of South Carolina.
• 2006/08, STAT J520, Forecasting and Time Series, Statistics Department, University of South Carolina.
• 2004/08, STAT 515,   Statistical Methods, Statistics Department, University of South Carolina.