1. Susan Athey is the Economics of Technology Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
23 Facts About Susan Athey
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Susan Athey served as the consulting chief economist for Microsoft for six years and was a consulting researcher to Microsoft Research.
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Susan Athey is currently on the boards of Expedia, Lending Club, Rover, Turo, Ripple, and non-profit Innovations for Poverty Action.
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Susan Athey serves as the senior fellow at Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
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Susan Athey is an associate director for the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and the director of Golub Capital Social Impact Lab.
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Susan Athey was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Rockville, Maryland.
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Susan Athey's parents are Elizabeth Johansen, an English teacher and freelance editor, and Whit Athey, a physics scholar.
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Susan Athey was additionally involved in a number of leadership roles at Duke, including serving as treasurer of Chi Omega sorority and as president of the field hockey club.
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Susan Athey's dissertation was supervised by Paul Milgrom and Donald John Roberts.
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Susan Athey has been married to economist Guido Imbens since 2002.
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Susan Athey has contributed on all dimensions to research on auctions.
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Susan Athey has performed significant empirical work in econometrics of auctions.
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Susan Athey oversaw work that has had significant effects on business and public policy.
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Susan Athey is able to hone her skills from different fields to create an amalgamation of machine learning and market design which is leveraged to make sense of and improve the social impact of technology.
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In some of her more recent research, Susan Athey applies these techniques to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Susan Athey applied her results to establish conditions under which Nash equilibria would exist in auctions and other Bayesian games.
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Susan Athey aided British Columbia in the design of their pricing system used for publicly owned timber.
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Susan Athey has served as an associate editor of several leading journals, including the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, and the RAND Journal of Economics, as well as the National Science Foundation economics panel, and she served as an associate editor for Econometrica, Theoretical Economics, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
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Susan Athey is a past co-editor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy and American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.
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Susan Athey was the chair of the program committee for the 2006 North American Winter Meetings, and has served on numerous committees for the Econometric Society, the American Economic Association, and the Committee for the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.
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Susan Athey is a member of President Obama's Committee for the National Medal of Science.
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Susan Athey serves as a long-term advisor to the British Columbia Ministry of Forests, helping architect and implement their auction-based pricing system.
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Susan Athey is the founding director of the Golub Capital Social Impact Lab at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and serves as the associate director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.