Alex Farach
Senior Data Scientist
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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SeniorAlex Farach is a senior data scientist based in Washington, DC, with 14+ years of experience at the intersection of AI, economics, and public policy. He specializes in building economic indices and experimentation frameworks to quantify AI’s societal and macroeconomic impact, evaluating systems like Copilot, ChatGPT, and Claude. At Microsoft, he co-authored the Work Trend Index and led RCTs, survey pipelines, and causal models to translate AI productivity into executive strategy and product insights. He has supported federal programs at Accenture and the Bureau of Labor Statistics through econometric modeling and responsible AI practices. He recently authored “Evolving the Productivity Equation” (arXiv, 2025), introducing a macroeconomic framework that positions AI as digital labor. Driven by the belief that AI progress should benefit society, he connects research, policy, and product to inform decisions at scale.
10 years of coding experience
English, Spanish
Github Skills (19)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
farach/data
Aug 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
farach/anti_fraud_tidymodels
May 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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