Dean Eckles
New Data Analytics Research Group Lead
Dean Eckles is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at MIT Sloan.
His substantive research examines people’s interactions with and through communication technologies, especially how 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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January 10, 2023
- Avinash Collis | Digital Fellow
- Dean Eckles | New Data Analytics Research Group Lead
- Sinan Aral | Director and Web3@MIT Research Group Lead
May 23, 2022
- Avinash Collis | Digital Fellow
- Dean Eckles | New Data Analytics Research Group Lead
- Sinan Aral | Director and Web3@MIT Research Group Lead
February 18, 2022
- Dean Eckles | New Data Analytics Research Group Lead
Eaman Jahani
Samuel P. Fraiberger
Michael Bailey
December 9, 2021
- Dean Eckles | New Data Analytics Research Group Lead
November 3, 2021
- Dean Eckles | New Data Analytics Research Group Lead
Maurice Jakesch
Kiran Garimella
Mor Naaman
May 8, 2021
- David Rand | Misinformation & Fake News Research Group Lead
- Dean Eckles | New Data Analytics Research Group Lead
Mohsen Mosleh
Cameron Martel
March 22, 2021
- Alex Moehring | PhD Candidate
- Sinan Aral | Director and Web3@MIT Research Group Lead
- Avinash Collis | Digital Fellow
- Dean Eckles | New Data Analytics Research Group Lead
Kiran Garimella
M. Amin Rahimian
February 4, 2021
- Sinan Aral | Director and Web3@MIT Research Group Lead
- Dean Eckles | New Data Analytics Research Group Lead
Alex Moehring
Avinash Collis
Kiran Garimella
M. Amin Rahimian