Kamer Daron Acemoğlu is a Turkish-American economist of Armenian descent who has been at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1993, where he is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics. He was named an Institute Professor at MIT in 2019.123
At a glance
- Current role
- MIT economist; Nobel laureate; Power and Progress
- Company
- MIT
- Fields
- Machine-learning theory
- Honors
- 1
- Sources cited
- 3
- Profile reviewed
Accomplishments
Research and appointments
Kamer Daron Acemoğlu is a Turkish-American economist of Armenian descent who has been at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1993, where he is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics. He was named an Institute Professor at MIT in 2019.123
Honors and recognition
- Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences · Nobel Foundation1
Where they work
- MIT 37 people in the wiki
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