Sendhil Mullainathan is a Distinguished Fellow with Chicago Booth. His current research uses machine learning to understand complex problems in human behavior, social policy, and especially medicine, ...

Sendhil Mullainathan is a University Professor, Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science at Chicago Booth. His current research uses machine learning to understand complex problems in human ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Sendhil Mullainathan, 53, makes the point that AI isn’t a thing that is happening to humans but a thing that humans are making. We have a choice ...

But, as Sendhil Mullainathan of Harvard University notes, these types of problem are alike. They require predictions based, implicitly or explicitly, on lots of data. Many areas of policy ...

For Sendhil Mullainathan, an economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in Illinois, “it’s probably been the single most exhilarating kind of research I’ve ever done in ...

Prepare to update your theory of change. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, a new book by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir, behavioral scientists at Harvard and Princeton respectively ...

Are you new to R? Curious about applications within the social sciences? All are welcome to attend this introductory-level workshop to learn how to program in R Studio. Attendees will gain hands-on ...

Influential economics scholar Sendhil Mullainathan will join the University of Chicago Booth School of Business faculty on July 1, 2018, where he has been appointed University Professor. He currently ...

I caught up with Mullainathan this week. An edited transcript follows. Harold Pollack: What are you trying to do with this book? Sendhil Mullainathan: We’re really trying to do two things.