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Sam Ransbotham

Professor

David J. Mastrocola Dean's Faculty Fellow

Department

Business Analytics

Profile

Sam Ransbotham is a Professor of Business Analytics. He teaches 鈥淎nalytics in Practice鈥 and 鈥淢achine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.鈥 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.听

The National Science Foundation awarded Sam an NSF CAREER Award, one of the NSF鈥檚 鈥渕ost prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty,鈥 for his . INFORMS honored Sam with an聽 , which recognizes 鈥渆arly career individuals who are on a path towards making outstanding intellectual contribution.鈥 Sam earned a bachelor鈥檚 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 SMR鈥檚 Big Ideas initiatives, including and .听