Associate Professor Avi Feller has been awarded the 2025 Mid-Career Award by the Social Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA) for his contributions to causal inference, with groundbreaking and fundamental contributions in areas that include methods for policy evaluation - including randomized trials and synthetic control designs - as well as approaches for mediation analysis, treatment effect heterogeneity, and understanding the effects of varying levels of participation in an intervention. Feller is also an Associate Professor at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy.

Feller’s research focuses on working with governments on using data to design, implement, and evaluate policies. Prior to his doctoral studies, Feller served as Special Assistant to the Director at the White House Office of Management and Budget and worked at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Feller received a Ph.D. in Statistics from Harvard University, an M.Sc. in Applied Statistics as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, and a B.A. in Political Science and Applied Mathematics from Yale University.

“Tremendous congratulations to Avi,” said Chair Haiyan Huang. “We are thrilled He is getting this much-deserved recognition amongst the statistical community.”

The ASA Social Statistics Section offers the Mid‑Career Award to statisticians who are within 15 years of receiving their terminal degree and have made significant contributions to the development and application of statistical science in social domains such as demography, sociology, economics, political science, criminology, education, or public policy. In 2023, Feller won the ASA Emerging Leader Award. The award recognizes early-career statistical scientists who demonstrate evidence of and potential for leadership, and who will help shape and strengthen the field.

-Alex Coughlin