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Finding which customers a message actually persuades, accepted at an IEEE conference

Most campaigns send everyone the same message and measure the average effect, which hides the people who respond strongly and the ones who are put off. Saanvi built an uplift modeling framework using X-Learner models to estimate each individual's response to different interventions and choose the best one per person. Personalized targeting produced $6.50 more incremental spending per customer than a uniform approach, and Qini curve analysis revealed a concentrated group of persuadable customers driving most of the gain.

FIELDMachine Learning & Economics
RESULTFirst-author paper accepted at an IEEE conference
VENUEIEEE, 2026
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A student at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics interested in how data can drive better decisions.

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First author of a causal machine learning study on personalized interventions, accepted at an IEEE conference.

THE LEDGER
01First-author paper accepted at an IEEE conference
02Estimated individual-level treatment effects with X-Learner models
03$6.50 more incremental spending per customer with personalized targeting
04Qini curve analysis isolated the persuadable segment
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