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Ramayya Krishnan is the W. W. Cooper and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Management Science and Information Systems at Heinz College and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. A faculty member at CMU since 1988, Krishnan was appointed as Dean of the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy in 2009.

Krishnan was educated at the Indian Institute of Technology and the University of Texas at Austin. He has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, a master’s degree in industrial engineering and operations research, and a PhD in management science and information systems. He is an expert on digital transformation and has worked extensively with firms and policy makers on using technology and analytics to achieve policy goals. He is well known for his work in e-commerce and information risk management where he has made seminal contributions to technology management and policy. His current research interests are in the responsible use of AI and in data driven approaches to support workforce development.

Krishnan has been a serial academic entrepreneur. He founded the Master of Information Systems and Management program in 1998. The program grew from a founding cohort of 10 students to an intake of 120 students in a few years and now has alumni in leading tech companies throughout the world. The data analytics track of the program (BIDA) was chosen by the US Army Futures Command in 2020 to be part of its AI scholars program. In 2022, he and his colleagues at the Heinz College launched the Decision Analytics and Systems (DAS) program, an innovative undergraduate minor that combines systems thinking, analytics and experiential learning. INFORMS, the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences, the leading organization of scholars and practitioners of analytics, recognized Heinz College in 2016 with the UPS George D. Smith Prize for educational excellence. Heinz College is the only educational institution that is home to both the Von Neumann Theory Prize and the UPS George D. Smith Prize from INFORMS.

Krishnan has founded 4 externally funded research centers raising close to $100M dollars over the course of the last decade. He directs the Block Center for Technology and Society and advises policy makers, business leaders and international organizations such as the Asian Development Bank on Technology and Policy.

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Ramayya Krishnan is the W. W. Cooper and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Management Science and Information Systems at Heinz College and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. A faculty member at CMU since 1988, Krishnan was appointed as Dean of the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy in 2009.

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In this episode of the RegulatingAI Podcast, we have Prof. Ramayya Krishnan, Dean of Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University and a distinguished voice in AI policy and governance. 

With expertise in technology, public policy, and societal impact, Prof. Krishnan explores the delicate balance between AI innovation and regulation, the role of AI in shaping public policy, and the governance frameworks needed to ensure responsible AI deployment. 



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About the Talk:  "Integrating Machine Learning and Social Science Methods: Toward a Data Intensive Social and Decision Science" The social and decision sciences have had a long history of focusing on human decision making in a number of societal contexts. In particular, ideas drawn from the fields of economics, statistics, and operations research have been used to develop and estimate models of decision making and behavior. In recent years, with the availability of highly granular data about human decision making,…

RAMAYYA KRISHNAN

Ramayya Krishnan is the W. W. Cooper and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Management Science and Information Systems at the H. John Heinz III College of Information Systems and Public Policy and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He joined the CMU faculty in 1988. He is the Founding Dean of the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy and has held that position since 2009. Krishnan’s education spans engineering, operations research, statistics and computing (the data sciences). He studied Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology and then went on to complete a M.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the Cockrell School of Engineering and a PhD in Management Science and Information Systems at the McCombs School of Business, both at the University of Texas at Austin. A distinctive feature of his work has been deep partnerships with firms and government agencies and the pursuit of work that has made foundational contributions to science while making a real-world impact. His multi-disciplinary research program has involved faculty and students, undergraduate and graduate, from nearly all the Colleges and Schools at the university. He has been a serial academic entrepreneur and established multiple, externally funded, university-wide research centers at CMU. He founded the Master of Information Systems Management program in 1998 and is currently leading the creation and launch of new undergraduate programs at the nexus of systems thinking, information systems, and data analytics. His scholarly contributions to Operations Research, Information Systems, and analytics, and his editorial and leadership activities resulted in his being elected an AAAS Fellow, an INFORMS Fellow, and a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He has been deeply engaged in policy work both at home and abroad. He led the CMU Task Force supporting Gov. Wolf in economic recovery and reopening in 2020-2021. In 2022, he was appointed to the National AI advisory committee which is charged with advising the President and the White House National AI Initiatives Office. He is a recipient of the distinguished alumnus award of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and the University of Texas at Austin. He served as the 25th President of INFORMS, the global operations research and analytics society, in 2019 and a three year term on its executive committee from 2017-2020.

Contents of this video:
0:00 - Intro
1:36 - Actual name
2:05 - Early years
7:53 - From Carnatic music to pop/ hard rock and blues
11:26 - Broad interest in literature
13:35 - Joining IIT Madras
15:41 - Choosing the Mechanical Engineering degree at random!
18:13 - IIT brotherhood
20:39 - Learning about OR
22:59 - Moving to Austin, Texas for higher studies
24:08 - Meeting a small constellation of OR legends at the University of Texas
31:38 - PhD dissertation on “Knowledge-based Aids for Model Formulation”
35:15 - Joining CMU in 1988
37:20 - First activities at CMU and working on the data disclosure problem
41:45 - Research work related to the World Wide Web
45:43 - Conducting problem-driven research
47:03 - Talent supply chain
50:53 - iLab
57:24 - The "Accidental Dean"
58:21 - Main contributions as Dean of the Heinz College at CMU
1:02:03 - Major degree in Analytics?
1:04:37 - Challenges of being a dean
1:08:47 - Leading the development and implementation of the AI Strategy for INFORMS
1:13:59 - On being appointed to the National AI advisory committee
1:16:40 - Future work
1:18-11 - Concluding remarks

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