James Nordlund

James Nordlund

I'm a Senior Economist at Amazon with a passion for causal machine learning and econometrics.

Before Amazon, I spent 11 years in academia, where my research focused on network, peer, and spillover effects. Even in a university setting, I was fired up about new technology. I was the creator and sysadmin of a cloud compute server for my department and I served as a lead on the transition to online teaching. I also introduced the first Python classes for undergraduate and masters students in my department. My courses covered the basics of APIs, regression, and simulation, among other topics, and culminated with a Python module that runs a real estate investment game over blockchain technology.