Dr. Luke Miratrix

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Biography

Luke W. Miratrix is a Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he serves as the Faculty Director of the Doctor of Philosophy in Education Program. With a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley, which he obtained in 2012, his primary research focus is on causality and the development of methodologies to assess and characterize treatment effect heterogeneity in randomized clinical trials and observational studies. He has conducted statistical evaluations of large-scale cluster-randomized trials in education interventions. His research interests encompass data mining with high-dimensional sparse methods and techniques for text summarization in various contexts such as newspaper corpora and legal decisions. Miratrix's scholarly contributions include a well-regarded paper co-authored with Jasjeet Sekhon and others, which won the Warren Miller Prize from the Society for Political Methodology. He was also honored with the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness Early Career Award in 2019.

Research Interests

Experience

Assistant Professor

2012-09-01 — Present

Harvard University • Cambridge, MA

Instructs courses in Statistics and conducts research in educational interventions and treatments.

Awards

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Warren Miller Prize

2019-01-01
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Early Career Award

2019-01-01

Requirements for Harvard University

Doctorate Program
Requirements
TOEFL
Total
Required:80
IELTS
Overall
Required:6.5
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in a technical or quantitative field
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Specialization Notes

Administered by the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS).