Jasjeet Sekhon

Job title: 
BIDS Faculty Affiliate
Department: 
Political Science and Statistics, UC Berkeley
Bio/CV: 
  • Professor, Political Science and Statistics, UC Berkeley
  • Co-PI for Moore/Sloan Data Science Environments

Jasjeet S. Sekhon's research focuses on methods for causal inference in observational and experimental studies and evaluating social science, public health and medical interventions. Professor Sekhon has done research on elections, voting behavior and public opinion in the United States, 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 the philosophy and history of inference and statistics in the social sciences.