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Prof. Dean Eckles

Associate Professor of Management
Associate Director, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS)

Primary DLC

MIT Sloan School of Management

MIT Room: E62-541
(617) 258-9102
https://www.deaneckles.com/

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Data Science
Marketing
Causal Inference
High-Dimensional Data
Social Network Data
Social Influence
Persuasion
Habits
Adaptive Systems
Field Experiments
A/B Testing
Human-Computer Interaction

Research Summary

Eckles's substantive research examines people's interactions with and through communication technologies, especially how these technologies mediate, amplify, and direct social influence. This work sometimes requires or benefits from new analytical methods, so he also works on applied statistics, design of field experiments, and causal inference.

Recent Work

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