Who We Are

Center for Analytics and Technology in Society

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The Center conducts research and outreach around the transformations that modern information and computing technologies cause at the individual (worker, consumer, patient, employee, artist), unit (business, department, clinic, hospital), market and societal levels.

The Center’s footprint covers understanding and anticipating these transformations; impact assessment and attribution; business strategy for transformative technologies; design and execution to optimize their effects; and competitive policy and market outcomes.

 

Our Director

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Hemant Bhargava
Distinguished Professor, Jerome and Elsie Suran Chair in Technology Management
Ph.D., The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Research Fellows

Ashwin Aravindakshan

Ashwin Aravindakshan Nair
Associate Professor 
Ph.D., University of Maryland

Jörn Boehnke

Jörn Boehnke
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago

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Rachel Chen
Professor of Management
Ph.D., Cornell University

Pantelis Loupos

Pantelis Loupos
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Prasad Naik

Prasad Naik
Professor
Ph.D., University of Florida

Olivier Rubel

Olivier Rubel
Professor
Ph.D., HEC Montréal and GERAD, Université de Montréal

Elizabeth Pontikes

Elizabeth Pontikes
Professor
Ph.D., Stanford Graduate School of Business

 

 

 

Research Associates

Ishita Ghai

Ishita Ghai
Research Associate

Julia Morris

Julia Morris
Research Associate

Leonard Jin

Leonard Jin
Research Associate, Computational Analysis

Sanjana Ravi

Sanjana Ravi
Research Associate

Meghna Advani

Meghna Advani
Research Associate

Anirudh Arora

Anirudh Arora MBA 25
Research Associate

Research: Secondary Sales of Entertainment and Sports Tickets: Addressing Challenges from Fraud and Scalping

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Livia Morris
Research Associate

 

 

 

CATS Team

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Avani Karandikar

MM Student, Graduate School of Management, 2026-2027

Previous education: B.E. (Hons), Electrical & Electronics Engineering, University of Adelaide, 2023

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Alinda Lau

Major: Cognitive Science B.S. and Psychology A.B.

Graduation year: 2028
 

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Ayan Mani

Major: Economics and Statistics

Graduation year: 2026 

Current work: Analyst @ K1 Investment Management
 

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Anirudh Murugesan

Major: Applied Statistics and Computational Cognitive Science 

Graduation year: 2025

Current work: Associate Product Manager @ Visa

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Rakshita Narayanaswamy 

Major: Statistics LLM summarization evaluation research

Graduation year: 2028
 

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Mark Soliman

Major: Mathematical & Scientific Computation + Statistics (Machine Learning Track)

Graduation year: 2026 

Current work: upcoming intern @ IBM, entering graduate school in fall 2028
 

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Alysa Zarkhin

Major: Mathematical Analytics & Operations Research B.S. and Economics B.A.

Graduation year: 2028

 

 

CATS Team Alumni

  • Prerna Bajaj
  • Sanjana Sivakumar
  • Vaibhav Gupta
  • Rachel Moy  
  • Jacqueline Patton
  • Kara Taylor
  • Kayla Ho
  • Ken Hoang
  • Neha Gondra
  • Shyla Chopra
  • Shruti Kakar
  • Allison Judy