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Eli Ben-Michael is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College, specializing in the Department of Statistics & Data Science. He previously served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University. Eli earned his PhD in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed his undergraduate studies in Computer Science and Statistics at Columbia University. His research is centered on developing statistical computational methods to address practical issues within public policy and social science research. He has a particular interest in integrating concepts from statistics, optimization, and machine learning to create methods that enhance credible and robust causal inference for data-driven decision-making.
Admission is extremely competitive with no strict GPA cut-offs; holistic review is used.