About Me

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 a particular emphasis on statistical and algorithmic decision-making. In the summer of 2025, I will join the Experimentation & Causal Inference group at Netflix as a research intern.
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 officer (EF).
Research
For an always up-to-date list of publications, see my Google Scholar page.
Publications
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Ergodic robust maximization of asymptotic growth under stochastic volatility
(2022). Finance and Stochastics (under revision).
Working Papers
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Statistical Decision Theory with Counterfactual Loss
(2025).
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Identification in Proximal Causal Learning (2025).
Teaching
Harvard University
- STAT 210: Probability I (Fall 2024)
- STAT 234: Sequential Decision Making (Spring 2025)
- STAT 286: Causal Inference with Applications (Fall 2025)
ETH Zurich
- Probability Theory and Statistics (Spring 2021)
Contact
Email: benedikt_koch@g.harvard.edu