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Kirk Bansak

Assistant Professor
Personal Statement

Professor Bansak's research interests are in causal inference, experimental design and analysis, refugee resettlement and asylum politics, algorithmic decision-making, and public opinion. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in ScienceNatureAmerican Political Science ReviewJournal of Politics, Political AnalysisStatistical ScienceJournal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, Nature Human BehaviourPNAS NexusPolitical Science Research and MethodsLegislative Studies Quarterly, Operations ResearchInternational Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES), and ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC). He is the inaugural Faculty Director of the Yardi Scholarship(link is external) at UC Berkeley, a faculty affiliate of the Immigration Policy Lab(link is external) at Stanford University and ETH Zurich, and a faculty affiliate of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI)(link is external).

Professor Bansak's CV can be found here(link is external).

 

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