Berkeley Brown Bag Seminar

Avi Feller is an associate professor at UC Berkeley working at the interface of statistics and data science and the social sciences. His research focuses on developing practical, transparent methods that can be applied at scale, and on deploying these tools in a range of policy domains, with a particular emphasis on education and criminal justice. His research has appeared in top methodological and social science journals, including Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Econometrica, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Nature Human Behavior. Feller has received multiple awards for his work, including the COPSS Emerging Leader Award and the SREE Early Career Award. Feller received a PhD in statistics from Harvard University and, prior to his doctoral studies, worked as a policy official in the White House Office of Management and Budget.