Andreas Haupt

Research Team

There’s such a long history on running randomized controlled trials in companies, and now everyone is evaluating AI. It felt too clear that we need to evaluate AI with the humans. That led to centaur evaluations.

Areas of Research

Andy is a human-centered AI postdoctoral fellow jointly appointed in the Economics and Computer Science Departments.

He is very interested in the micro interactions of humans (in particular non-experts) with AI systems, and the implications for privacy, oversight, and consumer steering. At the lab, he specializes on evaluating humans and AI systems together. In his work, he develops and applies methods of microeconomic theory, structural econometrics, and reinforcement learning.

He holds a Ph.D. from MIT in February 2025 with a committee evenly split between Economics and Computer Science. Prior to that, he completed two master’s degrees at the University of Bonn—first in Mathematics (2017) and then in Economics (2018), with distinction. He has worked on competition enforcement for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, and taught high school mathematics and computer science in Germany before his Ph.D.