Allyson Root

Staff Data Scientist

Allyson Root is a Staff Data Scientist at Airbnb, a position they have held since 2025. They previously served as a Senior Economist and Manager at Amazon from 2022 to 2023, and worked as a Senior Economist at Amazon Web Services from 2020 to 2021. Allyson has also gained teaching experience as a Part-Time Lecturer at the University of Chicago starting in 2022 and as a Graduate Student Instructor at UC Berkeley from 2018 to 2019. They earned a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from UC Berkeley in 2019 and a Master of Science in the same field from the same institution in 2016. Earlier in their career, Allyson held various roles including Project Associate at Innovations for Poverty Action and Research Assistant at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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Chicago, United States

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