Dean Eckles
Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
Dean Eckles is an Associate Professor of Marketing at MIT Sloan. He is affiliate faculty at the Institute for Data, Systems & Society in the Schwarzman College of Computing. Dean is also the ‘Data and Analytics’ Research Group Lead at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy.
His substantive research examines people’s interactions with and through communication technologies, especially the ways these technologies mediate, amplify, and direct social influence. This work sometimes requires or benefits from new analytical methods, so Eckles also works on applied statistics, design of field experiments, and causal inference.
Prior to joining MIT, he was a scientist at Facebook, where he worked on many product areas and analytical methods, including News Feed, messaging, advertising, tools for randomized experiments, and survey methods. Eckles previously worked in research at Nokia and Yahoo.
Eckles received his BA in philosophy, a BS and MS in cognitive science, an MS in statistics, and a PhD in communication, all from Stanford University.
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April 1, 2024
- David Rand | Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
- Dean Eckles | Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
Hause Lin
Haritz Garro
Nils Wernerfelt
Jesse Shore
Adam Hughes
Daniel Deisenroth
Nathaniel Barr
Adam Berinsky
Gordon Pennycook
February 11, 2024
- Dean Eckles | Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
- Madhav Kumar | Postdoctoral Associate
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February 8, 2024
- David Rand | Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
- Dean Eckles | Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
Hause Lin, Haritz Garro
Nils Wernerfelt
Jesse Conan Shore
Adam Hughes
Daniel Deisenroth
Nathaniel Barr
Adam Berinsky
Gordon Pennycook
January 10, 2023
- Avinash Collis | Digital Fellow
- Dean Eckles | Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
- Sinan Aral | Director, MIT IDE; Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
May 23, 2022
- Avinash Collis | Digital Fellow
- Dean Eckles | Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
- Sinan Aral | Director, MIT IDE; Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
February 18, 2022
- Dean Eckles | Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
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December 9, 2021
- Dean Eckles | Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
November 3, 2021
- Dean Eckles | Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Kiran Garimella
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