Bio

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics & Data Science and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Department of Statistics at Harvard University. I received my PhD in Statistics from U.C. Berkeley and I spent my undergraduate years at Columbia University where I received a bachelors degree in computer science and statistics.

My research focuses on developing statistical and computational methods to solve practical issues in public policy and social science research. I am particularly interested in bringing together ideas from statistics, optimization, and machine learning to create methods for credible and robust causal inference and data-driven decision making.

Contact

Email: ebenmichael@cmu.edu

Office: 2118D Hamburg Hall

Note on PhD admissions: I work with students in both the Statistics & Data Science PhD Programs and the Heinz College PhD Programs. There is also a joint program between the two. For any of these programs, individual faculty do not recruit and accept individual students; all applicants are considered as a whole and offered admission into the program regardless of which faculty member they eventually plan to work with. If you are interested in working with me, please reach out after the admissions process.