MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Welcomes Ashesh Rambachan As Assistant Professor of Economics

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.