If you, your colleagues, or your students are active users of any aspect of CSDE’s infrastructure (computing, consultations, seed grants, matching funds, lab facilities, travel funding, or working groups), then please don’t forget to acknowledge CSDE when publishing reports, books, articles, websites, or GitHub repo.  This is an easy and most tangible way to show how our resources are supporting your research. You can find the acknowledgement language here and you can just cut and paste the text into your research products. If you have any questions about how and when to acknowledge CSDE, please let us know.

On November 8th from 3:30-4:30 pm Austin Gross, a Principal Data Scientist with Microsoft, will join CDWG in person to discuss his experience of working at Microsoft. CDWG Will be Hybrid in Fall Quarter 2023. The discussion will take place in Raitt 223 (The Demography Lab) and on Zoom (register here). Austin achieved his PhD in Econ from UW and also worked during the degree program. He started at Zillow in year three of grad school and moved to Microsoft in year five. During his time at Microsoft, he has used his background as an economist to look at Bing auctions, Azure demand forecasting, how product changes impact customer usage, and generally to consult on causal analysis using both observational and experimental data. He lives in West Seattle with his wife and three children (13, 10, 7 years old). They generally enjoy playing outside at the beach or in the mountains, skiing, watching the Mandalorian, and playing with Legos.