Dr. Kevin Patel

Assistant Professor of Data Science

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Machine learning
Causal inference

Biography

Dr. Kevin Patel teaches in the Engineering & Computing and has been at Campora since 2014. Students describe their courses as demanding, generous and full of real problems.

Before joining Campora, Kevin Patel worked in industry and research in Boston and beyond, and still collaborates with partners across the city. Undergraduates join this research every semester as paid assistants.

Outside the classroom, Kevin advises student clubs, mentors first-generation students and speaks regularly at community events.

Selected publications

Patel, K. (2025). Robust causal estimates from observational health data. NeurIPS 2025.
Patel, K. and Ramirez, E. (2024). Explaining model uncertainty to non-experts. ICML Workshop.