CSDE Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) Hosts UW Econ PhD Candidate (11/15/2023)
Posted: 11/9/2023 ()
On November 1st from 3:30 – 4:30 pm Yigit Okar, UW Econ PhD Candidate, will join CSDE to discuss his experience with running online experiments during his internships at Amazon. CDWG will be Hybrid in the Fall Quarter 2023. Register on Zoom here or attend in person in 223 Raitt (Demography Lab). Yigit Okar is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Washington, Seattle, with prior degrees in Economics and Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul. During his internships at Amazon in the summers of 2021, 2022, and 2023, he worked on projects delved into A/B testing and causal inference with machine learning. His academic endeavors include text regression research using transformer-based encodings and choice modeling with high dimensions. He also contributes as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at his university. Yigit has been honored with the Diversity Scholarship by NABE in 2021 and the Jeff and Perri Roe Term Fellowship in 2020. Yigit extends his interests to scientific blogging and guitar playing beyond the academic sphere.
Date: 11/15/2023
Time: 3:30-4:30PM
Location: Virtual and 223 Raitt Hall (Demography Lab)