Biography
Anish Agarwal is an incoming professor at Columbia University. He was a postdoctoral scientist at Amazon, Core AI and also at the Simons Institute, UC Berkeley. He received his PhD in EECS from MIT, where he was fortunate to be advised by Alberto Abadie, Munther Dahleh, and Devavrat Shah. For his dissertation, he received the INFORMS George B. Dantzig best thesis award (2nd place), and the ACM SIGMETRICS outstanding thesis award (2nd place).His research interests are in causal inference, econometrics, and high-dimensional statistics. He has served as a technical consultant to TauRx Therapeutics and Uber Technologies on questions related to experiment design and causal inference. He was also a management consultant at Boston Consulting Group.
