Matias D. Cattaneo

Matias D. Cattaneo is a Professor in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University, with affiliated roles in the School of Public and International Affairs, Economics Department, Latin American Studies Program, Data-Driven Social Science, AI at Princeton, and Center for Statistics and Machine Learning. He serves as an Amazon Scholar and collaborates with global organizations.

• Education: Ph.D. in Economics (2008) and M.A. in Statistics (2005) from UC Berkeley, Master in Economics (2003) from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Licentiate in Economics (2000) from Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Research focuses on interdisciplinary challenges in social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences, combining econometrics, statistics, data science, and causal inference. His methodological work includes regression discontinuity designs, synthetic control methods, and local polynomial estimation, with applications to decision-making under uncertainty.

Scientific recognition:

• Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association
• Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
• Elected Fellow of the International Association for Applied Econometrics
• Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute

Software contributions include R packages rdhte, scpi, and lpcde, freely available on GitHub. His GitHub activity includes 344 contributions in the last year, with active repositories on regression discontinuity and synthetic control methods.