Jackie Baek
Assistant Professor at NYU Stern School of Business
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJackie Baek is an assistant professor at NYU Stern whose research blends machine learning, decision-making, and societal impact to design practical algorithms for high-stakes domains like hiring and global health. With a Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT and a decade-plus of experience spanning academic fellowships at the Simons Institute and industry internships at companies such as Snapchat, Dropbox, and Bloomberg, she bridges rigorous theory and production-minded engineering. Her work emphasizes fairness and real-world deployment, translating mathematical tools into policies and systems that address equity and public good. Based in New York, she combines deep optimization expertise from a Combinatorics & Optimization undergraduate background with hands-on software experience, making her research both theoretically grounded and practically implementable.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Operations Research, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Operations Research at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInternational Baccalaureate Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma at Colonel By Secondary SchoolBachelor of Mathematics, Combinatorics & Optimization, Computer Science, Bachelor of Mathematics, Combinatorics & Optimization, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (12)
forecasts10
bootstrapping10
data-access10
analytics9
visualization9
standardized9
atmospheric-modelling8
github-pages7
orc5
machine-learning3
statistics3
optimization3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jwbaek/jwbaek.github.io
Dec 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
josh-wilde/covid19-forecast-hub
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
Projections of COVID-19, in standardized format
Contributions:28 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
projectionsstandardized
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