Eli Ben-Michael

Eli Ben-Michael is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics & Data Science and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is affiliated with the CMU-NIST AI Measurement Science & Engineering Cooperative Research Center (AIMSEC). Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Department of Statistics at Harvard University and received his PhD in Statistics from U.C. Berkeley.

His research focuses on developing statistical and computational methods to solve practical issues in public policy and social science research. He is particularly interested in bringing together ideas from statistics, optimization, and artificial intelligence to create methods for credible and robust causal inference and data-driven decision making.