Jared Donohue

Product Data Scientist and Researcher

About Me

I’m a product data scientist and researcher working at the intersection of causal inference, experimentation, and human behavior. My background spans large-scale experimentation at Amazon, startup analytics and product development, and applied research at Columbia Business School. I hold an MS in Data Science from Columbia University and currently work as a Staff Research Associate at Columbia Business School, where I focus on causal inference and experimentation in applied settings.

Selected Work

Scientific Dataset and Causal Analysis for Cloud Seeding in the U.S.

Built pdf-to-text pipeline with OpenAI integration to extract metadata from 1,000+ scanned NOAA reports, addressing a gap in structured cloud seeding data. Published in Scientific Data.

Analyzed the causal effect of cloud seeding on precipitation using within-site difference-in-differences estimation. Pre-print coming in June 2026. GitHub

Alexa+ on Echo Show

Launched innovative audiovisual screen responses for Alexa+, the next-generation of Alexa powered by generative AI. Read more here.

Increased device interaction and customer satisfaction with Alexa's smart display devices. Read more here.

Design My Experiment

DesignMyExperiment.com

Free experiment design service and curated library of real product A/B tests for insights.

Using LLMs for Science Guest Lecture

Guest Lecture: Using LLMs for Science

Guest lecture at CUNY Graduate Center for class of 15 PhD and master's students on practical methods and workflows for using large language models in scientific research: PDF

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Behavioral Economics Experiment

Behavioral economics research proposal to learn about route choice strategy in navigation apps (e.g. Google Maps): PDF

Health Evidence Website

HealthEvidence.org

Website to help people distinguish robust health evidence from weak observational headlines in health.

Education

Columbia University

M.S. Data Science, Columbia University

  • Data Science Institute Scholar
  • Columbia Build Lab Intern
George Mason University

B.S. Computer Science, George Mason University

  • Computer Science Teaching Assistant and Peer Mentor