Anjana Susarla

Anjana Susarla holds the Omura-Saxena Professorship in Responsible AI at the Broad College of Business. She earned an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai; a graduate degree in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta; and Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include the economics of information systems, social media analytics and the economics of artificial intelligence. Her work has appeared in several academic journals and peer-reviewed conferences such as Academy of Management Conference, Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (Neurips), Decision Sciences Institute, Information Systems Research, INFORMS, International Conference in Information Systems, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Journal of Management Information Systems, Marketing Science Institute, Management Science, MIS Quarterly and Production and Operations Management Society (POMS). She has served on and serves on the editorial boards of Information Systems Research and MIS Quarterly.

Anjana Susarla has received several awards for her research. She been a recipient of the William S. Livingston Award for Outstanding Graduate Students at the University of Texas, a Steven Schrader Best Paper Finalist at the Academy of Management, the Association of Information Systems Best Publication Award, a Runner-Up for Information Systems Research Best Published Paper Award and the Microsoft Prize by the International Network of Social Networks Analysis Sunbelt Conference. She has worked in consulting and led experiential projects with several companies. Her research has received grants and funding from several institutions including the National Library of Medicine (a division of the National Institute of Health).

Professor Susarla has given several invited talks at industry and academic events and has been a commentator on algorithmic bias, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital transformation. She has been interviewed in and had her op-eds and research quoted and published in several media outlets such as the Associated Press, Atlanta Journal Constitution, BBC, Business Insider, Business Standard, CBS, Channel News Asia, Chicago Tribune, The Conversation, The Daily Beast, Deutsche Welle, Economic Times, El Pais, Esquire, Euronews, Fast Company, Fox News, Gizmodo, Haaretz, the Hindu, Houston Chronicle, Huffington Post, India Today, Michigan Public Radio, Marketplace Morning Report, The Mint, Nasdaq, National Public Radio, NBC, NDTV, Newsweek, Nieman Lab, Nikkei, OneZero, Outlook India, PBS, Pew Research, Philadelphia Inquirer, the Print, Quartz, Salon, Scientific American, Sirius XM, Slate, Snopes, UPI, Washington Post, the Week, Wired, World Economic Forum and Yahoo Finance. She has also been a speaker at public forums such as the South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival and the United States Institute of Peace.

Awards

• Broad Integrative Fellow
  Broad Integrative Fellows Program at the Broad College of Business
• Best Publication Award
  Association of Information Systems Best Publication Award at the International Conference on Information Systems
  
• Runner Up for Best Published Paper Information Systems Research