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Sam Ransbotham

Professor and David J. Mastrocola Dean's Faculty Fellow

Department

Business Analytics

Profile

Sam Ransbotham is a Professor of Business Analytics. He teaches Analytics in Practice and Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Ransbotham served as a senior editor at Information Systems Research, associate editor at Management Science, and academic contributing editor at MIT Sloan Management Review. He co-hosts the podcast about using artificial intelligence in business, available on all major platforms.泭

The National Science Foundation awarded Sam an NSF CAREER Award, one of the NSFs most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty, for his . INFORMS honored Sam with an , which recognizes early career individuals who are on a path towards making outstanding intellectual contribution. Sam earned a bachelors degree in chemical engineering, an MBA, and a doctorate, all from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Before earning his doctorate, he founded a software company with a globally diverse client list, including the United Nations IAEA (Vienna), FAO (Rome), WHO (Geneva), and WMO (London). Since 2015, he has been an editor for MIT SMRs Big Ideas initiatives, including and .泭