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CAMBRIDGE, MA–MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Dean Agustín Rayo announced ten new professors to the MIT community, including Ashesh Rambachan.
Rambachan is a new assistant professor in the Department of Economics. He studies economic applications of machine learning, focusing on algorithmic tools that drive decision-making in the criminal justice system and consumer lending markets and developing algorithmic procedures for discovering new behavioral models.
Rambachan also develops methods for determining causation using cross-sectional and dynamic data. He earned his PhD in economics from Harvard, and is joining MIT after spending a year as a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft New England.
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