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Anitesh Barua

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Professor at Texas McCombs School of Business
📍 Austin, Texas, United States

Anitesh Barua is the David Bruton Jr. Centennial Chair Professor and Department Chair for Information, Risk, and Operations Management at UT Austins McCombs School of Business. He focuses on the business impact of emerging technologies like ML and GenAI, with research supported by the NSF, Dell, IBM, and others.

His academic background includes a Ph. D. and a Master of Science from Carnegie Mellon Universitys Tepper School of Business. He is a prolific, award-winning educator and researcher focused on creating and sharing new knowledge to inspire students and solve real-world business problems.

His research has been featured in a vast array of prominent media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, BBC, Bloomberg, CNN, and Fortune.

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Experience
35 Years
Current Role
Professor
Location
Austin, Texas, United States
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GenAI in Business
Focuses on combining ML and GenAI to solve business problems and is actively updating his university courses to include the latest GenAI topics.
Unstructured Data Analytics
Teaches courses on this subject and actively researches practical applications like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines for Large Language Models.
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8-1990
Professor
Texas McCombs School of Business
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Education
Ph.D.
Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
Master of Science - MS
Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
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