Ajay Agrawal
Ajay Agrawal | |
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| Born | |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of British Columbia |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Known for | Founder of Creative Destruction Lab |
| Website | agrawal |
Ajay Agrawal works at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management as the Geoffrey Taber Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation as well as the Professor of Strategic Management.[1]
Agrawal co-founded NEXT Canada, previously The Next 36 in 2010. He founded the Creative Destruction Lab in 2012 at the University of Toronto. Agrawal is co-founder of an annual conference, held at the University of Toronto, “Machine Learning and the Market for Intelligence.” Agrawal is a co-author of the book ‘Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence’ (released in April 2018).[2]
Career
Rotman School of Management
In 2003, Agrawal joined the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor.[3] Agrawal is the Academic Director of the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Rotman School of Management.[4]
NEXT Canada
In 2010, Agrawal co-founded and became the Academic Director of The Next 36, now part of NEXT Canada.[5]
Creative Destruction Lab
Agrawal is Founder of the Creative Destruction Lab at the University of Toronto. The Lab was founded in 2012 as a seed-stage program for science-based companies. The program has five locations in Canada including Vancouver (UBC Sauder School of Business), Calgary (Haskayne School of Business), Montreal (HEC Montréal), and Halifax, Nova Scotia (Rowe School of Business). It has one location in the United States at the New York University Stern School of Business.[6]
Example CDL graduates include Waterloo-based Thalmic Labs who produce the Myo armband. In 2015, the Toronto Lab added a machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) stream.[7]. In 2017, the CDL launched a program focused on quantum machine learning. [8]
Machine Learning and the Market for Intelligence
Agrawal is the conference co-chair of ‘Machine Learning and the Market for Intelligence’ with Shivon Zilis. Its third edition was held in October 2017 at the University of Toronto.[9]
Kindred
Agrawal is Co-Founder of Kindred.[10] The MIT Technology Review listed Kindred as one of the 50 Smartest Companies of 2017.[11]
Publications
Agrawal has been published in the Harvard Business Review several times.[12] as well as the Oxford University Press. [13] According to Google Scholar, Agrawal has been cited 7064 times.[14] According to Social Sciences Research Network he has 37 scholarly papers.[15] Agrawal is co-author of the book ‘Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence’ with Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb. The book was released in April 2018 by the Harvard Business Review.[16]
Awards and honours
Agrawal has been awarded Professor of the Year seven times by MBA classes at the Rotman School of Management, the Martin-Lang Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award in 2017.[17]
Agrawal was included in the 'Power 50' list of most influential Canadians to watch in business in The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business Magazine.[18]
His co-founded company, Kindred AI, was featured at number 29 on MIT Technology Review’s 2017 list of smartest companies in the world.[11]
References
- ^ "The Economics of artifiical Intelligence". McKinsey. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
- ^ "How a U of T Professor is Creating High-Tech Superstars". Globe & Mail. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
- ^ "Ajay Agrawal". Rotman School of Management. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
- ^ "Ajay Agrawal". Big Think. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
- ^ "NextAI Venture Day 2017". Start Up Here Toronto. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
- ^ "The CDL is home to the greatest concentration of AI-based companies: Ajay Agrawal". Forbes India. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
- ^ "Creative Destruction Lab is launching a quantum machine learning accelerator in Toronto". Tech Crunch. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
- ^ "Toronto's Creative Destruction Lab Selects First Executive Director". Tech Vibes. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
- ^ "Machine Learning and the Market for Intelligence 2016". Motion Metrics. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
- ^ "After years hidden in the background, artificial intelligence is getting pushy: Don Pittis". CBC. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
- ^ a b "50 Smartest Companies 2017". Technology Review. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
- ^ "Ajay Agrawal". Harvard Business Review. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
- ^ "Innovation and the Growth of Cities". Oxford University Press. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
- ^ "Ajay Agrawal". Google Scholar. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
- ^ "Ajay Agrawal". Social Sciences Research Network. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
- ^ "Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence". Amazon Canada. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
- ^ "Creative destruction fits well with the spirit and nature of our work". Braingainmag. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
- ^ "The 50 most powerful people in Canadian business". Globe and Mail. Retrieved January 31, 2018.