Edvard Bakhitov

I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, under the supervision of Amit Gandhi. My research focused on combining modern machine learning with economic theory to enable flexible, nonparametric estimation in settings with endogeneity — most notably in differentiated product demand models.

I am a Senior Data Scientist on the Windows Experimentation Team at Microsoft, where I work on experimentation and causal inference. Previously, I was a part of the Central Applied Science team at Meta. There, I designed and deployed advanced experimentation frameworks for large-scale, interference-prone environments. Some of this work was featured at the Conference on Digital Experimentation at MIT (CODE@MIT) and AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.