Ian Schmutte
Principal Economist at Amazon
Athens-Clarke County Unified Government, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolIan Schmutte is a Principal Economist and science leader at Amazon who directs a multidisciplinary team of 25 researchers to translate advanced academic methods into actionable talent strategy for a 350,000-person corporate workforce. A Cornell Ph.D. and former tenured professor at the University of Georgia, he combines deep expertise in labor and organizational economics with rigorous causal inference and AI-driven measurement to tackle ambiguous personnel problems. His work includes public-sector impact designing differential privacy for the U.S. Census Bureau, reflecting a rare blend of econometric rigor and practical data-privacy engineering. At Amazon he’s building the economic architecture for knowledge workers amid an historic AI transition, turning ill-defined organizational questions into tractable, evidence-based solutions.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Economics, Ph.D. Economics at Cornell University
Github Skills (5)
css6
causal4
causal-inference3
inference2
synthetic1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ianschmutte/ianschmutte.github.io
Feb 2014 - Nov 2022
Personal Website of Ian M. Schmutte
Contributions:317 commits, 5 PRs, 306 pushes in 8 years 10 months
cssian
labordynamicsinstitute/abowd_schmutte_AER2019_slides
Apr 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:1 release, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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