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
By Brita Belli
April 12, 2021
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(Illustration by Michael S. Helfenbein)
For all the attention paid to the short and long-term physical effects of COVID-19, the disease has serious mental health consequences, too.
In a new report, Yale researchers examine how the pandemic is affecting our brains in particular the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that is involved in decision making, impulse control, and emotional regulation.
For 44 to 66 million disadvantaged Americans, the researchers say, the pandemic is exacerbating existing stressors including financial insecurity and systemic racism which impairs prefrontal cortical performance that is critical for regulating emotions and coping, among other functions.
By Greg Larson
March 31, 2021
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Philipp Strack
Today’s digital economy is blurring the boundaries between computer science and economics in Silicon Valley, on Wall Street, and increasingly on university campuses.
Yale undergraduates interested in both fields can pursue the Computer Science and Economics (CSEC) interdepartmental degree program, which launched in fall 2019, with coursework covering topics such as machine learning and computational finance.
Philipp Strack, CSEC’s inaugural director of undergraduate studies, is comfortable straddling multiple disciplines. With an academic background in economics and mathematics, his research reflects this broad and interdisciplinary outlook ranging from behavioral economics and neuroscience to auction design, market design, optimization, and pure probability theory.
By Jim Shelton
March 31, 2021
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Rachael Roettenbacher
A Yale astronomy fellow’s star power just received a boost.
Rachael Roettenbacher has been named a 51 Pegasi b Fellow by the Heising-Simons Foundation. The prestigious fellowship, which is named for the first exoplanet discovered orbiting a Sun-like star, provides up to $375,000 in support for independent research over three years.
Roettenbacher, who is currently in her third year as a Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, studies new techniques for observing signals from distant stars and whether those signals are preventing us from spotting signals from nearby exoplanets.