Anish Agarwal
Scholar

Anish Agarwal

Google Scholar ID: LOTTHUAAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Causal InferenceMachine Learning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,180
 
H-index
16
 
i10-index
22
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
12
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Best Paper Award, USENIX NSDI, 2023; Best Student Paper Award (Government Statistics, Survey Research Methods, & Social Statistics), American Statistical Association, 2023; ACM Sigmetrics Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Prize (2nd Place), 2022; INFORMS George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention), 2022; Simons-UC Berkeley Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2022; Multiple papers published in top conferences like NeurIPS and NSDI.
Research Experience
  • Research scientist at Amazon Core AI; Postdoctoral research fellow at the Simons Institute (UC Berkeley); Worked at Microsoft Research; Served as a technical consultant to TauRx Therapeutics and Uber Technologies; Management consultant at Boston Consulting Group before PhD.
Education
  • PhD from MIT EECS, advised by Alberto Abadie, Munther Dahleh, and Devavrat Shah; Undergrad and Master's degrees from Caltech, supervised by Mani Chandy and Adam Wierman.
Background
  • Research interests include causal machine learning, reinforcement learning, and high-dimensional statistics. Focuses on data-driven decision-making in engineering and social systems using tools from econometrics and machine learning.