Benedikt J. Koch

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Statistics at Harvard University, where I am advised by Kosuke Imai. My research centers on Causal Inference in the context of policy evaluation and learning, with emphasis on statistical and algorithmic decision-making. My goal is to extract statistically reliable information from data to help decision makers make better choices.

In the summer of 2025, I was a research intern in the Experimentation & Causal Inference group at Netflix.

Before joining Harvard, I earned degrees from the University of Oxford (MSc in Statistical Science), ETH Zurich (MSc in Applied Mathematics), and the University of Vienna (BSc in Mathematics). I also worked full-time as a Data Scientist at QuantCo, a consulting firm specializing in Statistical Machine Learning. Prior to my academic journey, I served in the Austrian Armed Forces, where I underwent training to become an army officer.