My lab is a wonderful group of students and researchers that I work with, some of whom I’m an advisor for. And although economists don’t usually have labs in the way that a neuroscientist does, we still try to promote a sense of group camaraderie – for example through lab events!
-Skills that make an applicant stronger include:
- Interest in innovation
- Knowledge of machine learning, computer science, electrical engineering
- Empirical analysis skills (statistics or econometrics)
- Facility with programming (e.g. R, SQL, Python, etc.)
I am currently looking for graduate students interested in working on the following topics:
- Trends in Computing: Analysis of where computer progress has come from and how it can be provided in the future (e.g. analysis of computer hardware, algorithms, alternate types of computing (quantum, optical))
- Economics of Machine Learning: Which techniques are important and why? What impacts will machine learning have for industry? Public policy? Sustainability?
Interested applicants should send me an email at neil_t@mit.edu.
To find our current lab members, please visit our team page.
Spring 2016 – Movie characters: Michael Wahlen, Sam Zyontz, Daniel Rock, Caroline Fry, Guillaume St. Jacques, Neil Thompson
Fall 2015 – Back to the 80s: Neil Thompson, Ankur Chavda, Sam Zyontz, and Caroline Fry
Spring 2015: Jeff Kuhn, Sam Zyontz, Neil Thompson, Caroline Fry and Amn Rahman