Faculty and Talent Research Profiles

Dr. Yigit Aydede, Sobey Professorship in Economics 

Dr. Yigit Aydede is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Sobey School of Business. His research interest is economics of population in the area of applied microeconomics. He teaches machine learning, econometrics and data analytics courses both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. His current research projects are related to machine learning applications on health care and chronic disease surveillance systems. Mostly recently, his research team was selected to the Nova Scotia COVID-19 Research Coalition. Their research is trying to understand the role that environmental factors play on local transmission rates. He is also one of the founding members of MLportal (Research Portal on Machine Learning for Social and Health Policy), which is a joint initiative by a group of researchers from Dalhousie and Saint Mary’s universities and collaborators all over the world.