Faculty
Dean Eckles is the KDD Career Development Professor in Communications and Technology and an Associate Professor of Marketing at MIT Sloan. He is affiliate faculty at the Institute for Data, Systems & Society.
His substantive research examines people's interactions with and through communication technologies, especially the ways these technologies mediate, amplify, and direct social influence. This work sometimes requires or benefits from new analytical methods, so Eckles also works on applied statistics, design of field experiments, and causal inference.
Prior to joining MIT, he was a scientist at Facebook, where he worked on many product areas and analytical methods, including News Feed, messaging, advertising, tools for randomized experiments, and survey methods. Eckles previously worked in research at Nokia and Yahoo.
Eckles received his BA in philosophy, a BS and MS in cognitive science, an MS in statistics, and a PhD in communication, all from Stanford University.
Eckles, Dean, René F. Kizilcec, and Eytan Bakshy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 113, No. 27 (2016): 7316-7322.
Eckles, Dean and Eytan Bakshy, Working Paper. 2018.
Taylor, Sean J., and Dean Eckles. In Spreading Dynamics in Social Systems, Springer Nature, Forthcoming.
Aral, Sinan K. and Dean Eckles. Science Vol. 365, No. 6456 (2019): 858-861.
Athey, Susan, Dean Eckles, and Guido W. Imbens. Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol. 113, No. 521 (2018): 230-240.
Alexander Peysakhovich, and Dean Eckles. In Proceedings of the 2018 World Wide Web Conference, edited by Előd Egyed-Zsigmond, Ivan Herman, Lionel Médini, Lyon, France: April 2018.
One of the most urgent threats facing our democracy and other democracies abroad is the ability to detect and thwart foreign election interference. But, research on election interference is scarce.
“Without an organized research agenda that informs policy, democracies will remain vulnerable to foreign and domestic attacks.”
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