Matias Cattaneo

Matias D. Cattaneo is a Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) at Princeton University, where he is also an Associated Faculty in the Department of Economics, the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML), and the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS). His research spans econometrics, statistics, data science and decision science, with particular interests in program evaluation and causal inference. Most of his work is interdisciplinary and motivated by quantitative problems in the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences. As part of his main research agenda, he has developed novel semi-/non-parametric, high-dimensional, and machine learning inference procedures with demonstrably superior robustness to tuning parameter and other implementation choices. Matias was elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) in 2022. He also serves in the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Econometrica, Operations Research, Econometric Theory, the Econometrics Journal, and the Journal of Causal Inference. In addition, Matias is an Amazon Scholar, and has advised several governmental, multilateral, non-profit, and for-profit organizations around the world.