Sendhil Mullainathan

Sendhil Mullainathan will joined the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Economics as a professor in July 2024. His research uses machine learning to understand complex problems in human behavior, social policy, and medicine. Previously, Mullainathan spent five years at MIT before joining the faculty at Harvard in 2004, and then the University of Chicago in 2018. He earned his BA in computer science, mathematics, and economics from Cornell University and his PhD from Harvard University.