Medha Uppala

Medha Uppala

Postdoctoral Scholar

Center for Social Data Analytics

About Me

I am a Postdoc currently working on estimating spillover effects in observational and experimental network settings.

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Interests

  • Causal Inference & Interference
  • Social Networks
  • Social Sciences
  • Spatial Statistics
  • Data Privacy

Education

  • PhD in Statistics, 2018

    University of California Los Angeles

  • BA in Economics (Cum Laude), 2012

    Boston University

News

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Research

Recent talks

August 2022 11:20 AM — 11:35 AM Washington, DC

Estimating Spillover effects in Smallholder Farmer Networks in Western Kenya

This is an paper talk for the session ‘Frequentist and Bayesian Inference for Complex Social Data’, 2022 Joint Statistical Meetings.

Slides

Projects

UCLA Energy Atlas

This is work I did for the Energy Atlas group at UCLA, modeling parcel-level energy consumption data for the Westwood area.

Spider Web Modeling

This work analyzes spider web locations on brick mortar lines using a separable temporal linear point process model.