Dr. Karthik Kalyanaraman
Adjunct Faculty - Artificial Intelligence & Managerial Economics
BACKGROUND
Professor Kalyanaraman is a Bangalore-based scholar of many topics who has made valuable and pioneering contributions to the fields of
econometrics, artificial intelligence, contemporary art, and financial education.
EDUCATION
- A.B. from Dartmouth College (2001)
- PhD from Harvard University (2009)
- University of Maryland, College Park
- University College London
- Harvard University
- American Enterprise Institute
- McKinsey and Company
- Econometrics (social network analysis, causal inference)
- Data Analysis and Visualization
- Contemporary Aesthetics across Cultures
- Creative Artificial Intelligence
- Artificial Intelligence and Public Policy
- Data Analysis and Visualization
- Immersive Education through Gamification
- Art, Economics, and Entrepreneurship
- Managerial Economics This will be a core course on microeconomics for managerial decision making and will cover the basic theory of supply and demand, pricing under different competition regimes, capital expenditure, and some basic game theory.
- Artificial Intelligence: Basics, Policy Issues, and Business Relevance. The first module is lecture-based and will cover the history of AI, from the 1960’s to present day. The second two modules will be is discussion-based, and will explore a) the philosophical, socio-political, and economic issues raised by AI and b) the business relevance of AI. Students will be encouraged to apply what they have learned about AI to concrete business situations.