Max Vilgalys
Climate Policy Analyst, NYC Office of Management and Budget
Previously, PhD at MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
[email protected]
CV

things I'm proud of in my work

• New York City Climate Budgeting
  • 2025 publication, 2025 technical appendix
  • 2024 publication, 2024 technical appendix
• Utility Rate Case Testimony on Return on Equity
  • 2025 ConEd Steam testimony and exhibits
  • 2025 ConEd Gas and Electric testimony and exhibits
• Estimating Continuous Treatment Effects in Panel Data using Machine Learning with a Climate Application (joint with Sylvia Klosin, 2022)
  paper, slides, package, code available upon request
• Equity and Adaptation to Wildfire Risk: Evidence from California Public Safety Power Shutoffs (2022)
  paper, code, data
• A Machine Learning Approach to Measuring Climate Adaptation (2023)
  paper, code and data available upon request
• Essays on Measuring Climate Change Damages and Adaptation (2022)
  thesis, individual chapters also above
• Analysis of coal plant performance in the western United States
  paper, blog post, webinar, code
• Contributions to the US Department of Energy geothermal energy study
  report 1 and report 2
• Other Coding
  
  • semi-parametric neural network implementation
  • double/debiased machine learning implementation
  • recitation materials for statistics and applied computation course

and in my life

• I biked across the country, listening and looking
  blog post
• I have a Spotify playlist with 18 followers