Ali Tafti

Associate Professor of Information & Decision Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I like information technology, economics, and science.

[Ali Tafti @atafti]

@sinanaral @InfoEcon Congratulations!

[Elena Zheleva @elenadata]

It's a rite of passage for a professor to have their first PhD student defend their thesis. For me, it happened today. Very proud of @chris_tran16 who successfully defended his dissertation "Beyond Model-Free Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects" 👏🥳

[Ali Tafti @atafti]

@yudapearl @tdietterich @gshmueli @eliasbareinboim Thank you for mentioning our paper; your recognizing it means a lot to us. The bulk of work on it was done by my PhD student Sujin Park. I found your 2016 PNAS paper with @eliasbareinboim on “causal data-fusion” to be inspiring.

[Ali Tafti @atafti]

@yudapearl I am so terribly sorry for your loss. I wish you and your family peace and strength in this difficult time.

[Ali Tafti @atafti]

@JuiRamaprasad I think CIST has a LOT of submissions this year!!!

[Ali Tafti @atafti]

@MohHosseinioun @hyejin_youn Congratulations, and great work! I am expecting great things from you.

[Ali Tafti @atafti]

@asusarla Interesting. I was just in the middle of the audiobook.

[Ali Tafti @atafti]

@a_teachr Sanjeev, It sounds like a sensible approach! I may do the same in my classes.

[Ali Tafti @atafti]

@jessecshore Congratulations Jesse, this is fantastic!!!

[Ali Tafti @atafti]

@yudapearl X in your diagram is like the treatment variable of a randomized experiment (no BDP's from X to Y). In this context, a "pre-treatment" variable is one to which there is no causal path from X (https://t.co/iQkmFDTBGe). Such variables should be "neutral in terms of bias."

[Ali Tafti @atafti]

@k_mcelheran @raffasadun @kcnickerson @johnvanreenen @I_Am_NickBloom @erikbryn @danielrock @sonnytambe @lynnwu02 @bowenlou @frank_nagle @ravibapna @DanSichel1 @JamesBessen @robseamans @v_m_bennett It's the transition from Bush to Obama, so there are thousands of policy changes you could look into. It is also aftermath of the Great Recession, and Recovery Act Stimulus packages. e.g. Labor policy changes in Obama administration? Skilled labor/immigration policy changes?

[Ali Tafti @atafti]

@ravibapna @aghose @InfoEcon @shawndrahill Congratulations to the winners of this important award!

[Ali Tafti @atafti]

@asusarla I signed

[Ali Tafti @atafti]

@sinanaral Your study findings (with Vosoughi and Roy) are very important! I've been discussing this in my class on Social Media & Network Analytics.

[Ali Tafti @atafti]

Mailed some letters this morning. #TheBigSend ⁦@votefwd⁩

[Ali Tafti @atafti]

Thanks @ProfGarimella! It was a pleasure to present "Beyond Overall Treatment Effects:.." written with @gshmueli, paper forthcoming in ISR here: https://t.co/iQkmFDTBGe

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

I had to teach my Introduction to Psychology class today to 300+ students from my cell phone while I was trapped in my apartment building elevator with my two young kids.

This has to go down as my most surreal and stressful teaching experience.

[Sinan Aral @sinanaral]

[🚨New Book!🚨] After 20 years of research and 4 years of writing... I'm SO excited to share my first book "The Hype Machine" with the world!... https://t.co/Rn40SXoGFJ

[Ali Tafti @atafti]

@gburtch Excellent!