Kai Cooper

Kai Cooper
  • Doctoral Student

Contact Information

  • office Address:

    3730 Walnut Street
    533.3 Jon M Huntsman Hall
    Philadelphia, PA 19104

Research Interests: causal inference, machine learning, partial identification, fairness, discrimination, education, educational technology in the classroom

Links: Personal Website

Overview

Kai is a PhD student in the Operations, Information and Decisions Department at the Wharton School, advised by Dean Knox. Before coming to Penn, he received a First Class master’s degree in mathematics from Imperial College London, UK, with a year spent abroad at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. His interests lie in the development of novel mathematical and statistical methods for causal inference, with a particular focus on partial identification. Ongoing applications of his work include discriminatory policing, fairness, social mobility and the intersection of classrooms, educational technology and personalised learning.

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