Wharton AI & Analytics News Archives

The Wharton School Makes Strategic Investment in Artificial Intelligence Research and Teaching

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The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania today announced a major investment to drastically scale its research and teaching capabilities in the areas of artificial intelligence and data science. Under the umbrella of the new Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative, the interdisciplinary endeavor will encompass curricular enhancements, investments to advance new research, collaboration between industry and academia, and open-source resources to help shape the direction of generative AI.…Read More

Petco Gains New Insights, Quick Results Through AI & Analytics Accelerator

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As part of the Spring 2024 AI & Analytics Accelerator, Peggy Pranschke from Petco worked with teams of Wharton and Penn students to leverage machine learning and data analytics to help develop novel solutions for supplementing email marketing campaigns for her company. …Read More

Student Spotlight – Emma Segerman and Naomi Korn Tackle the Sports Industry

Emma Segerman and Naomi Korn have a lot in common. Both are graduating seniors at the University of Pennsylvania – Segerman’s degree is in business analytics with a concentration in legal studies & business ethics, Korn’s is in philosophy, politics, and economics with a minor in statistics. Both women have a knack for numbers, and a deep love for sports. They were both involved with the Wharton Sports Analytics and Business Initiative (WSABI) as undergrads, and they both have jobs lined up in the sports industry waiting for them when they graduate.…Read More

Research Spotlight: Cryptocurrency Confidence Index

Analytics at Wharton spoke with David Reibstein, Catherine “Cait” Lamberton, Z. John Zhang, and, Martin P. Fritze about their research into the attitudes of consumers towards cryptocurrencies – whose true value is famously difficult to ascertain – and how those attitudes are reflected in the pricing of cryptocurrencies.…Read More

Unpacking the Generative AI Landscape: Who Wins and How?

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Unpacking what it takes to build and deploy a large language model reveals which players stand to gain the most — and where newer entrants might have the best prospects. Read the latest from the Wharton School’s Kartik Hosanagar and Carnegie Mellon University’s Ramayya Krishnan.…Read More

How to Improve AI Fairness in an Unfair World

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Hamsa Bastani, Faculty Co-Lead at the Wharton Healthcare Analytics Lab, is co-author of a recent research paper, Rethinking Fairness for Human-AI Collaboration, with Haosen Ge, Data Scientist, Analytics at Wharton and Osbert Bastani, assistant professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania.…Read More

We’re Focusing on the Wrong Kind of AI Apocalypse

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(Outlet: Time) Ethan Mollick, Associate Professor at the Wharton School and Academic Director, Wharton Interactive, challenges the apocalyptic focus on AI risks and emphasizes the immediate threats of misinformation, deep fakes, and AI proliferation. He highlights the need for organizations to make informed decisions about AI’s impact on work and learning, emphasizing it requires thoughtful management and integration to avoid potential negative outcomes.…Read More

Visiting Scholars Amit Gandhi and Cornelia C. Walther Join Analytics at Wharton

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Analytics at Wharton is proud to welcome Amit Gandhi and Cornelia Walther as visiting scholars for the academic year. In their roles, Gandhi and Walther will provide thought leadership and content expertise for a variety of programs at Analytics at Wharton, serving as faculty mentors for student teams and subject matter experts. With a focus on corporate relationships and humanitarian-focused uses of technology, Analytics at Wharton couldn’t have welcomed these two brilliant scholars at a better time. …Read More

Research Spotlight: Angel Chung

This month, we spoke with Angel (Tsai-Hsuan) Chung, a second-year PhD student in Wharton’s Operations, Information and Decisions (OID) Department, about her work in Sierra Leone on optimizing health supply chains with decision-aware machine learning…Read More