Bio
Alexandre Belloni is the Westgate Distinguished Professor of Decision Sciences and Statistical Science at Duke University and an Amazon Scholar WW FBA. His research spans AI, statistics, economics and operations research. His work focuses on developing and applying advanced methods in causal inference, high-dimensional statistics, econometrics, machine learning, and mechanism design to solve complex decision-making problems in business, public policy, and digital settings.
Professor Belloni’s research interests are on machine learning and statistics, mechanism design (e.g. contracts/auctions), optimization and on their applications. His works appeared at top journals in Economics, Operations Research, and Statistics. He received the 2007 Young Researchers Competition in Continuous Optimization Award, was part of the team that won the 2022 Da Vinci award at Amazon SCOT, and the 2022 Bank of America Award recipient at Fuqua.
He has served in different editorial boards in Economics, Statistics, and Operations Research, and was the inaugural Area Editor for Machine Learning and Data Science area of Operations Research. Finally, his teaching has been on Core Statistics and Data Analytics to various programs including Daytime MBA, Weekend MBA, and MQM.