April 20, 2021
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Eight members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have recently been named to endowed professorships by vote of Yale’s Board of Trustees.
They are:
Keith Baker, a particle physicist known for his contributions to the discovery of the Higgs boson and his work on dark matter, has been appointed the D. Allan Bromley Professor of Physics. Read more
Menachem Elimelech, who researches physical and chemical processes at the nexus of water and energy, has been appointed the Sterling Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Read more
April 12, 2021
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Jasjeet Sekhon
Jasjeet Sekhon, who conducts research on causal inference, machine learning, and experimental design, has been named the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and of Statistics and Data Science. His appointment was effective Feb. 20.
A member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Sekhon has applied his work across the social sciences, including political science, economics, and epidemiology. His research focuses on methods for causal inference in observational and experimental studies and evaluating social science, public health and medical interventions. He has studied elections, voting behavior, and public opinion in the U.S., multivariate matching methods for causal inference, machine learning algorithms for irregular optimization problems, robust estimators with bounded influence functions, health economic cost effectiveness analysis, and