Publications
The growing influence of industry in AI research [PDF] (with N Thompson, M Wahed). Science. 2023
Selected media coverage: Financial Times, Venturebeat, Le Monde, The Atlantic
What should be done about the growing influence of industry in AI research? (with N Thompson). Brookings Report. 2023
Most visited publication from October-December, 2023
Under Review
[Scientists & Appropriation Strategy in AI]
[Digital value capture around a policy shock] (with M Joshi, JP Vergne & N Su)
(R&R). We use a regression discontinuity design to document which organizations captured more digital value from a major policy shock.
[Regulation and Entrepreneurship] (with Jake Grandy, Shon Hiatt, S Park)
(under review, ASQ ).
Working Papers
Complementary Assets Enhancing Technological Discontinuity: How the Rise of Deep Learning De-democratized Artificial Intelligence Research (with M Wahed) [PDF]
(Target: Management Science). We use synthetic control method and NLP methods to showcase how deep learning was a specific technological disconinuity, which in turn, changed the competitive dynamics in the research field.
Nominated, Best PhD Paper Prize, SMS, 2020
Nominated, Research Methods Paper Prize, SMS 2020
Media coverage: VentureBeat, Scientific American, Axios, Marginal Revolution, The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence and Stanford AI Index (2021).
The Narrow Depth and Breadth of Corporate Responsible AI Research [PDF] (with Kirsten Martin, Amit Das, Kawshik Banerjee)
Media: Nature news, Nature Index
Responsible AI Principles: Human Capital’s Role in the Adoption of Socially Responsible Activities (with Nan Jia)
Corporate Scientific Research in Responsible AI: Evidence from the GDPR (with Francisco Polidoro Jr.)
I use diff-in-diff to show that political capabilities play an important role in firms' decision to engage in responsible AI research.
(Early draft available. Presented at NBER, Harvard LISH, Northeastern E&I, Columbia MAD conference and at AOM)Work in Progress
Technological Discontinuities and R&D Collaboration Strategies: How Deep Learning Changed Firm-level Collaboration Strategies in Artificial Intelligence
Nominated, Best PhD Paper Prize, SMS, 2020
Finalist, Max Boisot Award, EGOS, July 2018
Winner, Lazaridis Institute Entrepreneurship Poster Competition at WLU, June 2018