Meet Our Team

CAAI is transforming our understanding of AI as applied to business and society. We develop insights and tools to solve business and social problems with AI, and we equip the next generation of leaders with the insight and expertise to be successful in a world where AI fundamentally impacts how we do business.

CAAI Leadership

Sanjog Misra

Faculty Director

Sanjog Misra is the Charles H. Kellstadt Distinguished Service Professor of Marketing and Applied AI at Chicago Booth. His research focuses on the use of machine learning, deep learning and structural econometric methods to study consumer and firm decisions. In particular, his research involves building data-driven models aimed at understanding how consumers make choices and investigating firm decisions pertaining to pricing, targeting and salesforce management issues.

Cathy Kiriakos

Director, Center for Applied AI

Cathy Kiriakos serves as Director of the Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Working alongside Faculty Director Sanjog Misra, she leads the Center's strategic and operational direction, overseeing external partnerships, programming, and data initiatives that connect rigorous academic research to real-world industry application.