Recent Research (see more)

  • Should you use longer clips to market your music? In new research, we show you when and why using a quasi-experiment and generative models of music.

  • Can we design ML algorithms that are provably human-friendly? In new research, we show you how with a case study on expanding the taxonomy used for interest-based ad targeting at Pinterest.

  • Is status persuasive in deliberation online? In a paper published in Management Science, we designed a quasi-experiment to quantify the causal impact of status using millions of conversations from the field.

  • How does one make causal inferences with unstructured text data? We survey this problem in a paper published in the Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

About Us

The DAG is led by Emaad Manzoor, and is comprised of:

We are grateful for financial support from:


For queries & collaborations, email emaadmanzoor@cornell.edu.