Sloan research fellowship and the mit technology

Sloan Research Fellowship and the MIT Technology Review “Innovators Under 35” Award .
Tommaso Bondi is an Assistant Professor at Cornell Tech and the SC Johnson School of Management at
Cornell University. Tommaso’s research mostly revolves around the economics of digitization,
quantitative marketing, and behavioral and experimental economics. His most recent research seeks to
understand – through theory, large datasets, and experiments – how the internet is changing how we
discover and consume new products, as well as the potential biases in beliefs and perceptions that can
arise in the process. His empirical work has focused on the arts industries. Tommaso earned a Bachelor
degree in Mathematics from the University of Milan in 2011, a Master in Economics and Social Sciences
from Bocconi University in 2013, and a Ph.D. in Economics from NYU’s Stern School of Business in 2020,
under the supervision of Luís Cabral. In the Spring of 2014, he was a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley’s
Haas School of Business. He is the 2013 recipient of the Marco Fanno Scholarship, awarded yearly by the
Unicredit & Universities Foundation to the two best Italian economists under the age of 25. His research
has been most recently funded by the Russell Sage Foundation and the NET Institute.
Ron Brachman is the Director of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute and a Professor of Computer
Science at Cornell University. He is responsible for the oversight of all Institute activities and programs,
continuing to develop its vision and strategy and grow it into a completely new role model of innovation
for graduate education, while training new leaders who use deep science to change the world. Ron
received his B.S.E.E. from Princeton University (1971), from which he graduated Summa Cum Laude and
Phi Beta Kappa. He was captain of the Heavyweight Crew his senior year. He received his S.M. (1972)
and Ph.D. (1977) degrees in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University. His research specialization
was Artificial Intelligence, specifically, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, an area in which he
went on to become a world-renowned authority, authoring dozens of highly-cited research papers,
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creating the new field of Description Logics, and co-authoring a leading textbook. Before coming to
Cornell Tech, Brachman had an outstanding career in research and research leadership at world-leading
institutions like Bell Labs, AT&T Labs, DARPA, and Yahoo Labs – at these institutions he was responsible
for recruiting world-class research teams and creating and leading innovative research and academic
relationship programs. Brachman has served as President of AAAI and currently serves on the Board of
Directors of the Computing Research Association. He is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and AAAI.