Victor Chernozhukov


Victor Chernozhukov is a Russian-American statistician and economist currently at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Econometric Society, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. His current concerns are mathematical statistics and machine learning for causal structural models in high-dimensional environments. He is a recipient of The Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and Dissertation Fellowship, The Arnold Zellner Award, and The Bessel Award from the Humboldt Foundation. He delivered the invited Cowles, Fisher-Shultz, Hannan, and Sargan lectures at the Econometric Society Meetings. He served as the inaugural moderator of the new Economics section of ArXiv, which launched in 2017.