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FDS Colloquium: Dean Eckles (MIT)

Speaker: Dean Eckles (MIT) William F. Pounds Professor of Management and Marketing Massachusetts Institute of Technology Wednesday, February 25, 2026 11:30AM - 1:00PM Lunch at 11:30am in 1307 Talk 12:00-1:00pm in 1327 Location: Yale Institute for Foundations of Data Science & Webcast, 219 Prospect Street, 13th Floor, New Haven, CT 06511 and via Webcast: https://yale.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=8feb8848-6f14-4660-8c35-b3ca01474ab5

Speaker Bio: Dean Eckles is the William F. Pounds Professor of Management and a Professor of Marketing at MIT Sloan. He is Associate Director of the Institute for Data, Systems & Society in the Schwarzman College of Computing.

His substantive research examines people’s interactions with and through communication technologies, especially the ways these technologies mediate 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 and Nokia.

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.

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