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Ritu Agarwal is the Wm. Polk Carey Distinguished Professor of Information Systems and Health at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. She is also the founding co-director of the Center for Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence (CDHAI) Dr. Agarwal is an expert in the strategic use of information technology, digital transformation of healthcare, health analytics, and artificial intelligence applications in health. Prior to joining the Carey School, she was a Distinguished University Professor and the Robert H. Smith Dean’s Chair of Information Systems at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park. She was also the Founding Director of the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS) at the Smith School. As a scholar working at the intersection of social science, data science and technology, Dr. Agarwal’s research seeks to apply advanced digital technologies to healthcare practice and delivery, and to unravel the underlying behavioral, psychological, and social processes that enable and constrain successful healthcare interventions. She has been a pioneer in research related to digital technologies and health among scholars in leading business schools, and has devoted her research efforts towards improving healthcare quality, promoting equity and access, and reducing costs. She has published over 100 articles in leading business and healthcare journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Management Science, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, and Health Affairs.

Kevin Frick has worked on the economic evaluation of interventions to limit the incidence of blindness and visual impairment as well as to limit the impact of the conditions. He applied his expertise in studies focusing on the economic impact of conditions related to the eye (and other areas of health) and the cost-effectiveness of preventing and treating the same.

Professor Sudip Gupta is a faculty in the finance area at Johns Hopkins University’s Carey Business School. His current research and teaching interests are in the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Machine Learning (ML), Auctions, Corporate Finance, ESG, Fintech and healthcare. He is an award-winning teacher, and his research has appeared in top academic journals and nominated for best paper awards in multiple peer reviewed conferences. He won the best paper published award (for 2022) for his paper on machine learning based textual analysis in finance at Quarterly Journal of Finance (QJF). He has written papers in the areas of auctions, alternative data and credit rating, credit derivatives, ESG ratings and portfolio formation with alternative data, IPOs, nowcasting with alternative data, treasury auctions etc. His work on using alternative data and machine learning to improve credit access for the unbanked has received wide academic, policy and practitioner attention. Prof Gupta’s current research focuses on AI-ML issues in finance and healthcare. His current projects include algorithmic bias in health care and fintech market, predictive model of financial toxicity and cancer care, etc. Prof. Gupta is a fellow of the Centre for Responsible AI. He is also a core faculty of the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative (HBHI) and an active member of the Centre for Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence (CDHAI) at Johns Hopkins University-Carey Business School. Prof Gupta was also a co-recipient of the Nexus (Convening) Award for Artificial Intelligence for Health Equity Research (AIHE) at Johns Hopkins University. Prof Gupta is a data hackathon champion and consults various multinational financial corporations and government committees. He has served as an expert in multiple high profile financial class action litigations. He is often consulted as an antitrust expert worldwide in various M&A, price-fixing, damages analysis etc. cases. Prof Gupta was part of a government financial market regulator panel to design the regulation for AI-ML for the financial market. Prior to joining Carey, Prof Gupta was a faculty and director of the top ranked MS in Quant Finance program of the Gabelli School of Business (GSB), Fordham University, where he introduced and taught big data-machine learning in finance in the MS curriculum. Previously, Dr. Gupta was a full-time faculty member and taught at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, Indian School of Business (ISB), New York University’s Stern School of Business, and the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business. He was the recipient of the Dean’s Impact award for faculty excellence and high impact in research, teaching, and service at GSB. He has a PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Prof Gupta currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Financial Data Science and Journal of Portfolio Management; two leading academic journals in finance.

Prabhala's work on India focuses on banks, financial intermediaries, and corporate finance in India. His prior and ongoing research includes work on credit scoring and its adoption by Indian banks, bank runs, the use of robo-advisors for wealth management, lowering frictions in consumer credit search, retail lending under fairness criteria, the impact of regulations and government programs such as laws to strengthening creditor rights, priority sector lending programs to aid small businesses, and PMJDY, a large-scale financial inclusion program.

Alessandro Rebucci is an Associate Professor in Finance and Economics at the Carey Business School, holding a joint appointment with the Economics Department of the Krieger School of Art and Science. Prof. Rebucci is a NBER Faculty Research Fellow (International Finance and Macroeconomics Program), a CEPR Research Fellow (International Macroeconomics and Finance Programme), and a Research Fellow at the Center for Urban & Real Estate Management, Globalization of Real Estate Network (University of Zurich) and the Centre for Applied Financial Economics (University of Southern California). He is Associate Editor for the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Journal of Banking of Finance, the Journal of International Money and Finance, and Economia (the Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association--LACEA). Prof. Rebucci had Visiting Scholar Positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, the Central Bank of Finland, and the IMF Research Department. Before joining Carey, Prof. Rebucci held research and policy positions at the Inter-American Development Bank (2008-2013) and the International Monetary Fund (1998-2008). His research interests include international finance and banking, and more recently the study of the diffusion and impact of COVID-19.

Dr Simeonova is an applied economist who works at the intersection of health and behavioral economics. She has a special interest in children's development and the impact of policies on long-term health and economic outcomes of children. Dr. Simeonova has done research on the determinants of adherence with medication and the effects of COVID-19 on communities.

I am a research fellow at ISB. Human Capital Development. Retention in India; Book Chapters on Talent Management in India; Leadership in India; Monthly column in the India HR publication, People Matters.