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Balaji Padmanabhan

Balaji Padmanabhan

Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives

Dean's Professor of Decisions, Operations & Information Technologies

Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence in Business

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Balaji Padmanabhan, Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives and Professor of Decision, Operations and Information Technologies, has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras and a PhD from New York University (NYU)’s Stern School of Business and has worked in the data science, AI/machine learning and business analytics areas for 25 years. His current work addresses the design of artificial and augmented intelligence solutions that combine data, machine learning and modeling the real-world through complex systems simulations and has broad applications across business, policy, media and healthcare. He has published extensively in data science and related areas at premier journals and conferences in the field and has served on the editorial board of leading journals including Management Science, MIS Quarterly, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Information Systems Research, Big Data, ACM Transactions on MIS and the Journal of Business Analytics. 

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330 Students From Across Campus Sign up for Smith’s Agentic AI Challenge
At the Smith School's Agentic AI Challenge, 67 student teams developed solutions to industry problems using advanced AI systems, with…
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Third Annual Symposium Examines AI’s Opportunities and Challenges
At the 2026 AI Symposium on Design and Governance, speakers examined how artificial intelligence is shaping work, healthcare and software,…
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Smith’s Center for AI in Business Awarded $1M+ Federal Grant to Help Small Businesses Adopt AI
The University of Maryland’s Smith School received $1.031 million in federal funding to help Maryland small businesses adopt AI, offering…
Read News Story : Smith’s Center for AI in Business Awarded $1M+ Federal Grant to Help Small Businesses Adopt AI

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Facial Recognition Flaws and Deepfake Solutions: Smith School Researchers Address AI Bias
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