Ahmad Mohassel

Senior Data Scientist

Ahmad Mohassel is a senior data scientist in the Data Science and Advanced Analytics group program at AIR. He is an applied labor economist and an econometrician with experience in impact evaluation, machine learning, and international development. Dr. Mohassel has extensive experience in working with large datasets using statistical, econometric, and machine learning methods in R, Python, Stata, and SQL. He is currently working on DARPA World Modeler as a principal investigator and project director.

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Ph.D. & M.A., Economics, University of Arizona; M.Sc., Economics, Sharif University of Technology; B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology

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