Ramayya Krishnan

Carnegie Mellon University

Ramayya Krishnan is the W. W. Cooper and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Management Science and Information Systems at the H. John Heinz III College and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. A faculty member at CMU since 1988, Krishnan was appointed as the Dean in 2009 of the Heinz College. During his years at CMU, he has led the development of a number of award-winning educational programs (e.g., the Master of Information Systems Management), contributed to growing and governing multiple university wide initiatives (Masters in Computational Finance), and established 4 university wide research centers that has attracted more than $100M of extra mural funding to the university. 

Krishnan’s education spans engineering, management, information systems, operations research and data analytics.  He is an expert in data and decision analytics and digital transformation. He is an AAAS Fellow (section T), an INFORMS Fellow, an elected member of the National Academy of Public Administration.  He chairs the AI futures Committee of the National AI Advisory Committee to the President and the White House office of AI Initiatives office. He was appointed chair of the DOD’s RAI academic council.in 2023. He is faculty director of the Block Center for Technology and Society, a university wide center that is a center of excellence on the societal consequences of technological change (https://www.cmu.edu/block-center/).