Deven Desai

Deven Desai
deven.desai@scheller.gatech.edu
Deven Desai is faculty in the Scheller College of Business Law and Ethics Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Desai was an associate professor of law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law. He was also the first, and to date, only academic research counsel at Google, Inc., and a visiting Fellow at Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy. Desai's scholarship examines how business interests, new technology, and economic theories shape privacy and intellectual property law and where those arguments explain productivity or where they fail to capture society's interest in the free flow of information and development. His work has appeared in leading law reviews and journals including the Georgetown Law Journal, Minnesota Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, U.C. Davis Law Review, Florida Law Review, and Brigham Young University Law Review. Prior to becoming a professor, Desai has been a litigator handing intellectual property and technology matters with Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart, & Sullivan, LLP, in-house counsel for idealab! -- an Internet infrastructure company, and part of policy and fundraising teams for the 2002 Cory Booker for Mayor campaign. Desai has been interviewed about 3D printing, intellectual property, privacy, and technology by the New York Times and the news show, Take Part Live. He blogs about technology, intellectual property, and privacy at Concurring Opinions and Madisonian. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with highest honors and the Yale Law School, where he was co-editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities.
Associate Professor, Area Coordinator for Law and Ethics
Phone
(404) 385-3136
Office
Scheller 4164
Additional Research
Data Security & Privacy; Policy
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > Scheller College of Business

Sudheer Chava

Sudheer Chava
sudheer.chava@scheller.gatech.edu

Sudheer Chava, Ph.D, is an associate director of the Institute for Information Security & Privacy for the area of risk management, and professor of finance at Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also serves as finance area coordinator at Scheller and as the director of the nationally top 10 ranked Master of Science in Quantitative and Computational Finance (QCF) program at Georgia Tech (a joint program by the School of Mathematics, Industrial and Systems Engineering, and Scheller).  Dr. Chava has taught a variety of courses at the undergraduate, masters, MBA and Ph.D. levels, including derivatives, risk management, valuation, credit risk, financial technology ("fintech"), and management of financial institutions. He also has taught both theoretical and empirical finance doctoral courses and is a faculty advisor to multiple doctoral students. Dr. Chava's main research interests are risk management, credit risk and financial institutions. He has extensively published on these topics in the leading finance journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Management Science. His research won a Ross Award for the best paper published in Finance Research Letters in 2008, was a finalist for the Brattle Prize for the best paper published in Journal of Finance in 2008, and was nominated for the Goldman Sachs Award for the best paper for published in Review of Finance during 2004.  Dr. Chava is the recipient of multiple external research grants such as FDIC-CFR Fellowship, Morgan Stanley Research grant, Financial Service Exchange Research grant, Q-group Research Award (2010, 2012) and GARP Research Award. He has presented his research at finance conferences such as AFA, WFA, EFA, Federal Reserve Banks and at many universities in the United States and abroad. Chava received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2003. Prior to that he earned an MBA degree from the Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore, an undergraduate degree in Computer Science Engineering, and worked as a fixed-income analyst at a leading investment bank in India. In 2014, he was awarded the Linda and Lloyd L. Byars Award for faculty research excellence at Georgia Tech and he has also received multiple research awards and fellowships at Texas A&M University.

Alton M. Costley Chair and Professor of Finance
Associate Director - Risk Management, Institute for Information Security & Privacy
Phone
404.894.4371
Office
Scheller 4125
Additional Research
  • Quantitative & Computational Finance
  • IT Economics
IRI/Group and Role
Data Engineering and Science > Faculty
People and Technology > Affiliated Faculty
Data Engineering and Science
People and Technology
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > Scheller College of Business

Andre Calmon

Andre Calmon
andre.calmon@scheller.gatech.edu

Dr. Andre Calmon is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at Scheller College of Business, the co-director of Sustainable-X, and a Brook Byers Institute Faculty Fellow. Before joining Georgia Tech, he was an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at INSEAD.

Andre’s research uses data, analytics, and mathematical modeling to address sustainability and efficiency issues in innovative business models. More broadly, his research investigates how organizations can use analytics and business model innovation to generate positive social and environmental impact while increasing profits. His work has been published in premier management journals such as Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management.

Andre is a renowned educator, and his innovative pedagogy resulted in several award-winning new courses, case studies, and student-led ventures. In particular, the sustainability pedagogical material he developed was the Grand Prize winner of the Page Prize. Furthermore, Andre’s teaching fosters a “classroom-to-startup-to-research” pipeline, and much of his research examines new management challenges faced by startups founded by his former students.

Andre received a Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT. He also holds an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Universidade de Brasília (UnB).

Associate Professor
Additional Research
data, analytics, mathematical modeling, business modeling for sustainability and efficiency, operations management, emerging markets 
IRI/Group and Role
Sustainable Systems > Fellow
Data Engineering and Science > Faculty
Sustainable Systems
Data Engineering and Science
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > Scheller College of Business
Research Areas
Sustainable Systems
  • Economics and Business of Sustainability