Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum vitae of Arvind Karunakaran, including appointments, education, and honors and awards.

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Appointments

Assistant Professor of Management Science & Engineering, and by courtesy of Sociology — Stanford University
Core faculty — Center for Work, Technology, and Organization (WTO)
Core faculty — Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP)
Faculty affiliate — Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI)
Faculty affiliate — Digital Economy Lab

Education

Ph.D., MIT Sloan School of Management, 2018

Honors & Awards

2025 — Thinkers50 Radar
2025 — Ascendant Scholar, Western Academy of Management
2025 — Best Published Paper Award, Communications, Information Technologies, & Media Sociology Section, American Sociological Association
2025 — Gerard J. Tellis Best Junior Faculty Paper Award, 5th Artificial Intelligence in Management (AIM) Conference
2024 — W. Richard Scott Article Award, Organizations, Occupations, and Work (OOW) Section, American Sociological Association
2024 — Responsible Research in Management Award, RRBM and Academy of Management Fellows Group
2024 — Future of Organizations Inaugural Fellowship, Organization Design Community
2023 — Runner-up, ASQ Best Paper based on a Dissertation
2023 — LERA/AILR Best Papers, Labor and Employment Relations Association Annual Meeting
2023 — Fellowship, CASBS Summer Institute
2023 — Finalist, Best Conference Paper Award, OMT Division, AOM Annual Meeting
2022 — Jagdeep & Roshni Singh Faculty Fellow, Stanford University
2022 — Best Published Paper, Communications, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology, American Sociological Association
2022 — Giarratani Rising Star Award, Industry Studies Association
2022 — Runner-up, Best Paper in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Industry Studies Association
2019 — William H. Newman Best Dissertation Paper, Academy of Management
2019 — Louis Pondy Best Dissertation Paper, OMT Division, Academy of Management
2019 — Honorable Mention, Junior Theorist Award, Theory Section, American Sociological Association
2019 — Gerardine DeSanctis Best Dissertation Paper, CTO Division, Academy of Management
2019 — Best Conference Paper, CTO Division, Academy of Management
2019 — Emerging Scholar in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Industry Studies Association
2019 · 2021 · 2022 — LERA Best Papers, Labor and Employment Relations Association
2019 — Finalist, Best Submission with Practical Implications, MOC Division / Behavioral Science and Policy Association, AOM
2019 — Runner-up, Best Working Paper Award, Technology, Innovation Management, and Entrepreneurship, INFORMS
2018 — Best Doctoral Dissertation, Association for Information Systems (AIS) / Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
2018 — Honorable Mention, Shils-Coleman Memorial Award, Theory Section, American Sociological Association
2017 — Best Graduate Student Paper, Communications, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology, American Sociological Association
2017 — Best Paper (Macro Track), East Coast Doctoral Conference (Columbia University and NYU)
2017 — Ethnography Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
2016 — Donald R. Cressey Award for the Most Outstanding Dissertation Project, Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy
2013 — Above & Beyond Call of Duty Award (top 2% of reviewers), OMT Division, AOM
2012 — Vincent Cerf Graduate Student Paper Award, Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technologies