Matias D. Cattaneo

Matias D. Cattaneo

Professor, ORFE
Associated Faculty, SPIA
Associated Faculty, Economics
Associated Faculty, PLAS
Affiliated Faculty, DDSS
Affiliated Faculty, AI at Princeton
Affiliated Faculty, CSML

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Matias D. Cattaneo is a Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) at Princeton University. He is also an Associated Faculty in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), the Department of Economics, and the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS), and an Affiliated Faculty in the Data-Driven Social Science (DDSS) initiative, the AI at Princeton initiative, and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML). Beyond academia, he serves as an Amazon Scholar, and has advised a wide range of organizations worldwide.

Matias is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the International Association for Applied Econometrics, and an elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. His research interests are interdisciplinary, motivated by quantitative challenges arising in the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences. He integrates econometrics, statistics, applied mathematics, data science, and decision science, with applications to program evaluation and causal inference.

Matias earned his Ph.D. in Economics (2008) and M.A. in Statistics (2005) from the University of California, Berkeley, a Master in Economics from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (2003), and a Licentiate in Economics from Universidad de Buenos Aires (2000). Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Matias is married to Rocio Titiunik, and they have two daughters.