About - Keyon Vafa
I am a Data Science Initiative postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. My research develops machine learning methodology to uncover insights into human behavior in labor economics and political science, among other fields in the social sciences. Methodologically, I focus on natural language processing, probabilistic modeling, and causal inference.
I completed my PhD in computer science at Columbia University in 2023, where I was advised by David Blei . During my PhD, I was an NSF GRFP Fellow and Cheung-Kong Innovation Doctoral Fellow . Prior to that, I received a BA in computer science and statistics from Harvard University. I have also interned in industry at Google Brain and Facebook AI Research.
Here is my curriculum vitae .
About - Keyon Vafa