Rahul Telang is Trustees professor
of Information systems at the
Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University and at the Tepper School of
Business (Courtesy).
Professor Telang is broadly
interested in how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and
associated digitization of information impact consumers, business and policies.
Recently, he has been working on future of work, value of users’ skills and
skill training. He has done a lot of work on Digital Media Industry with a
particular focus on how digitization (and associated piracy) in copyrighted
industries is affecting the incentives of content provider, distributors and
users. His research is directed towards understanding and shaping an optimal
copyright and intellectual property policy in the Digitization Era. He was the
recipient of Sloan Foundation Industry Study fellowship and a number of Google
Faculty awards. He is a co-director of a center IDEA (Initiative for
Digital Entertainment Analytics). He has
worked extensively with industry and policy makers on variety of issue
surrounding digitization of Media. He
also does extensive consulting on this topic and has written a popular book.
He has worked in the space of
economics of information security and privacy. His key interest is in
understanding the incentives of various parties (users, firms and hackers), why
markets fail, how to create a useful policy framework and how to measure the
effectiveness of such policies. His work explored the controversy surrounding
vulnerability disclosure, vulnerability markets and their role in generating
optimal outcomes. He has been examining the role of Apple privacy labels and
bug bounty programs. He was the recipient of NSF CAREER award for his
work on economics of information security. He is also part of Cylab
and Institute for Infrastructure Protection (I3P). He also worked on a large NSA funded project on
examining home users’ security and privacy behavior.
Some of his other work has explored
the role of broadband in schools, ICTs in for form of EMR (Electronic Medical
Records) in hospitals, and so on. Currently he is working on many projects to
estimate the value of skills, and training skills to users.
Dr. Telang has published extensively
in many top management and policy journals like Management Science, Marketing
Science, ISR, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Policy and Management, and NBER
chapters. He held senior editor positions at Management Science, ISR
(Information Systems Research) and MIS Quarterly. Many of his papers have
received top honors at journals and conferences. He has generated large
external funding over the years for many of his projects.
Dr Telang does extensive consulting
and speaking at various firms. In particular, he has been working closely with
Disney and Warner Brothers on their streaming and Home Entertainment business
strategy including pricing, streaming and licensing strategies.
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