About Us

The Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence achieves impact at scale.

CAAI is transforming our understanding of AI as applied to business and society. We develop insights and tools to solve business and social problems with AI, and we equip the next generation of leaders with the insight and expertise to be successful in a world where AI fundamentally impacts how we do business.

Leadership

Sanjog Misra

Faculty Director

Sanjog Misra is the Charles H. Kellstadt Distinguished Service Professor of Marketing and Applied AI at Chicago Booth. His research focuses on the use of machine learning, deep learning and structural econometric methods to study consumer and firm decisions. In particular, his research involves building data-driven models aimed at understanding how consumers make choices and investigating firm decisions pertaining to pricing, targeting and salesforce management issues.

Emily Joy Bembeneck

Director

Emily leads operations and strategy for the Center, building partnerships with industry, academia, and policymakers. Previously, she was in ed-tech and digital learning, building partnerships between industry and higher education. Her background is in digital storytelling, having earned her PhD at the University of Michigan, focusing on narrative and digital media.

Staff & Research Team

Rafael Batista

PhD Student

Claire Boone

Research Fellow

Lauren Doan

Associate Director of Events and Programming

Nick Foster

Data Scientist, Nightingale

Kaia Griggs

Content Designer and Writer

Brian Jabarian

Howard and Nancy Marks Principal Researcher

Kevin Lee

PhD Student

Ester Muzychuk

Predoctoral Fellow

Josh Risley

Director of Engineering, Nightingale

James Ross

Associate Director & Lab Manager

Abigail Scott

Events & Communications Manager

Janani Sekar

Predoctoral Fellow

Kirill Skobelev

Predoctoral Fellow

Florence Ukeni

Communications & Design Intern

Anna Zink

Principal Researcher, Health Policy

Booth Faculty

Anna Costello

Jeffrey Breakenridge Keller Professor of Accounting

X.Y. Han

Assistant Professor of Operations Management

Christian B. Hansen

Wallace W. Booth Professor of Econometrics and Statistics

Anders Humlum

Assistant Professor of Economics, Chicago Booth

Alex Imas

Associate Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics and Vasilou Faculty Scholar, Chicago Booth

Ralph S.J. Koijen

AQR Capital Management Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and Fama Faculty Fellow

Bradford Levy

Assistant Professor of Accounting

Tengyuan Liang

Professor of Econometrics and Statistics and William Ladany Faculty Fellow, Chicago Booth

Stefan Nagel

Fama Family Distinguished Service Professor of Finance

Valeri Nikolaev

James H. Lorie Professor of Accounting and FMC Faculty Scholar

Veronika Rockova

Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, and James S. Kemper Foundation Faculty Scholar

Alex Todorov

Leon Carroll Marshall Professor of Behavioral Science and Richard Rosett Faculty Fellow

Amy Ward

Rothman Family Professor of Operations Management and Charles M. Harper Faculty Fellow

Thomas Wollmann

Associate Professor of Economics and William Ladany Faculty Scholar

Dacheng Xiu

Professor of Econometrics and Statistics

Faculty Affiliates

Jesse Bruhn

Assistant Professor of Economics, Brown University

Oeindrila Dube

Philip K. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies, UChicago Harris School of Public Policy

Milan van den Heuvel

Economist-in-Residence, BNP Paribas Fortis Bank; Scientific Director, Research through Banking Initiative, Ghent University

Jens Ludwig

Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, UChicago Harris School of Public Policy

Ziad Obermeyer

Blue Cross of California Distinguished Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, Berkeley School of Public Health

Ashesh Rambachan

Assistant Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Steering Committee

Devin Pope

Steven G. Rothmeier Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, and Robert King Steel Faculty Fellow

Dacheng Xiu

Professor of Econometrics and Statistics

Veronika Rockova

Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, and James S. Kemper Foundation Faculty Scholar

Alex Todorov

Leon Carroll Marshall Professor of Behavioral Science and Richard Rosett Faculty Fellow

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The Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence About Us

The Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence achieves impact at scale.

Leadership

Faculty Director

Director

Staff & Research Team

Rafael Batista

Lauren Doan

Nick Foster

Kaia Griggs

Kevin Lee

Ester Muzychuk

Josh Risley

James Ross

Abigail Scott

Janani Sekar

Kirill Skobelev

Florence Ukeni

Booth Faculty

Alex Imas

Veronika Rockova

Alex Todorov

Dacheng Xiu

Faculty Affiliates

Milan van den Heuvel

Ashesh Rambachan

Steering Committee

Devin Pope

Dacheng Xiu

Veronika Rockova

Alex Todorov

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