Ananya Sen is assistant professor of information technology and management at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College. Before moving to Carnegie Mellon, he was a postdoctoral associate at MIT Sloan School of Management. He received a PhD in economics from the Toulouse School of Economics. Sen’s research interests center around platforms and digitization with a special focus on the media. His research is mainly empirical and uses various methods, including field experiments and natural experiments within observational data. A key feature of Sen’s research is to analyze those questions and contexts where managerial and policy questions are two sides of the same coin. His research has been accepted or published in leading journals, including Management Science, Nature, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Journal of Marketing Research.
Sen received the INFORMS ISS Gordon B. Davis Young Scholar Award in 2022, as well as the Management Science Meritorious and Distinguished Service Awards. He received the NET Institute Grant in 2020 and 2022, two Best Paper Awards from the Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE) in 2019 and 2021, and was named a fellow of the Global Future Council on Media at the World Economic Forum in 2021.
Sen’s project, “Automation Technologies, Online Misinformation, and Echo Chambers,” will address the significant role of automated monetization and recommendation technologies in fostering misinformation and echo chambers, which contribute to political polarization. The project proposes field experiments (or randomized control trials) to explore how these technologies influence the news media ecosystem and to devise potential solutions for mitigating their negative impacts.
May 2024
