Nabarun Deb

Assistant Professor of Econometrics and Statistics

Chicago Booth School of Business

5807 S Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637

About Me

I completed my Ph.D. from the Statistics Department at Columbia University, New York. I was jointly advised by Prof. Bodhisattva Sen and Prof. Sumit Mukherjee. I did my Bachelors and Masters in Statistics from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

I was the inaugural PIMS Kantorovich Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (2022–23), jointly advised by Prof. Young-Heon Kim, Prof. Soumik Pal, and Prof. Geoffrey Schiebinger. Since July 2023, I have been an Assistant Professor at Chicago Booth (Econometrics and Statistics).

Research

• Nonparametric inference and testing
• Optimal transport and measure transportation
• Generative modeling
• Inference for dependent data (Network models/time series)
• Large deviations
• Causal inference

Education

• University of British Columbia, Vancouver: PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022 (Aug) – 2023 (Jul)
• Columbia University, New York: Ph.D., Statistics, 2017 (Aug) – 2022 (Jun)
• Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata: M.Stat, 2015 (Jul) – 2017 (May)
• Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata: B.Stat, 2012 (Jul) – 2015 (May)