Matias D. Cattaneo is a Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) at Princeton University. He is also an Associated Faculty in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), the Department of Economics, and the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS), and an Affiliated Faculty in various data science initiatives and centers across campus. Beyond academia, he serves as an Amazon Scholar, and has advised a wide range of organizations worldwide.
Matias is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the International Association for Applied Econometrics, and an elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. His research is interdisciplinary and motivated by quantitative challenges arising in the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences. It brings together econometrics, statistics, applied mathematics, data science, and decision science, with applications to program evaluation and causal inference.
Matias earned a Ph.D. in Economics (2008) and an M.A. in Statistics (2005) from the University of California, Berkeley, a Master in Economics from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (2003), and a Licentiate in Economics from Universidad de Buenos Aires (2000). Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, he is married to Rocio Titiunik, and they have two daughters, Lucero (Lulu) and Maite.