Robert On

Alumni (PhD 2018)

Focus

Information, Communication, and Technology in development. Development economics. Information economics. Machine learning. Causal inference.

Biography

Robert has a background in EECS and Statistics and is a PhD student at the School of Information, Berkeley. His areas of research cover ICTD and Development Economics. He is interested in the procurement, implementation, adoption, and evaluation of information systems for social and economic development with the motto: Try a lot, fail a lot, but measure everything.