Emaad Manzoor

Biography

Emaad Manzoor is an assistant professor of marketing at Cornell SC Johnson College of Business where he leads the Data Analytics Group. His research spans knowledge graph mining, causal inference with text, and the design of randomized and quasi-experiments toward understanding persuasion in technology-mediated communication.

He is a recipient of the 2022 Psychology of Technology Dissertation Award, was a 2021 Rising Star in Data Science by the University of Chicago, received a Best Paper Award at the 2021 AAAI workshop on AI for Behavioral Change, and was a runner up for the 2021 INFORMS-ISS Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award.

Manzoo received his PhD in information systems from Carnegie Mellon University and has spent time working at Yahoo!, Pinterest, and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems.

Education

PhD Carnegie Mellon University, 2021
PhD Stony Brook University, 2016
MS King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 2015
BE Birla Institute of Technology and Science, 2012

Research

• Manzoor, Emaad; Chen, George; Lee, Dokyun; Smith, Michael. "Influence via Ethos: On the Persuasive Power of Reputation in Deliberation Online"Management Science. 70.3 (2024): 1613-1634
• Feder, Amir; Keith, Katherine; Manzoor, Emaad; Pryzant, Reid; Sridhar, Dhanya; et al. "Causal Inference in Natural Language Processing: Estimation, Prediction, Interpretation and Beyond"Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 10 (2022): 1138-1158

Awards

• Dissertation Award (2022) Psychology of Technology Institute
• Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award, runner up (2021) INFORMS Information Systems Society
• Rising Stars in Data Science (2021) University of Chicago
• Best Paper Award (2021) Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Workshop on AI for Behavioral Change