Full Name
Dean Eckles
Job Title
William F. Pounds Professor of Management; Professor, Marketing
University/Company
MIT
Speaker Bio
Dean Eckles is the William F. Pounds Professor of Management and a Professor of Marketing at MIT Sloan. He is Associate Director of the Institute for Data, Systems & Society in the Schwarzman College of Computing.
His substantive research examines people's interactions with and through communication technologies, especially the ways these technologies mediate and direct social influence. This work sometimes requires or benefits from new analytical methods, so Eckles also works on applied statistics, design of field experiments, and causal inference.
Prior to joining MIT, he was a scientist at Facebook and Nokia.
Eckles received his BA in philosophy, a BS and MS in cognitive science, an MS in statistics, and a PhD in communication, all from Stanford University.
His substantive research examines people's interactions with and through communication technologies, especially the ways these technologies mediate and direct social influence. This work sometimes requires or benefits from new analytical methods, so Eckles also works on applied statistics, design of field experiments, and causal inference.
Prior to joining MIT, he was a scientist at Facebook and Nokia.
Eckles received his BA in philosophy, a BS and MS in cognitive science, an MS in statistics, and a PhD in communication, all from Stanford University.
