Pedro Masi
PhD Student, Business Analytics & Statistics
Biography
I am a PhD Student in Business Analytics and Statistics at the Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. My research lies at the intersection of AI and causal inference. I apply text mining and embedding techniques to measure technology adoption and its impact on labor and financial outcomes, converting unstructured patent and job-posting text into structured representations that feed econometric models estimating the effects of AI exposure on skill value and firm capital investments.
Research Fields
- Causal Inference
- Machine Learning & Representation Learning
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Education
- PhD, Business Analytics and Statistics — University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2023–Present)
- M.S., Finance and Technology — Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2020–2021)
- M.S., Agricultural Economics — Kansas State University (2017–2019)
- B.A., Agricultural Economics — Kansas State University (2011–2015)
Advisors: Chuanren Liu, Yuanyang Liu
Committee Members: Chuanren Liu, Yuanyang Liu, Hao (Howard) Zhong, Matthew Henriksson
Job Market: I am on the 2026–2027 academic job market.