Vansh Gupta 42.3608 N, 71.0843 W · Cambridge, MA

⊕  CV

Curriculum vitae

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01Education and work
2025–2030

MIT Sloan School of Management

PhD, working on the economics of technological innovation, entrepreneurship and strategic management. S.M. in Management Research expected 2027. Coursework in microeconomics, econometrics, industrial organization, antitrust, economic sociology, and labor, organizational and innovation economics. Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) scholarship from the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, to study resilient creativity in the age of AI (2026); grant from Analogue Group and The Good Science Project for Unlocking Global Growth Through Indian Innovation & Patent Commercialization (2026); MIT Sloan Doctoral Fellowship (2026–30); Kalim Family Fund Fellowship (2025).

2023–2025

Charles River Associates

Associate and data scientist in antitrust and competition, analyzing the competitive effects of US healthcare mergers, including correspondence with the U.S. Department of Justice. CRA Innovation Award in 2024 and 2025 for internal mapping and spatial-data tools.

2022

Columbia Business School

Dean's Summer Research Fellow with Jorge Guzman. Worked on strategic treatment effects and built the open-source STE R package. The open-source sponsorship paper with Annamaria Conti and Maria Roche started here.

2020–2023

Cornell University

Two bachelor's degrees, in Biometry and Statistics (GPA 3.95) and Applied Economics and Management (GPA 3.92). Magna cum laude, with a research honors thesis awarded distinction. Teaching assistant for CS 1112 (MATLAB) and CS 2110 (object-oriented programming and data structures). Research assistant to Daniela Scur on the Brazil state-capacity projects.

2021

American Economic Association

Data reproducibility researcher for AEA Data Editor Lars Vilhuber, reproducing results in papers submitted to AEA journals. Wrote Upload-to-Zenodo.

2018–2019

Grant Thornton International

Research trainee at the Global Research Centre.

02Talks
2026

Conferences and talks

East Coast Doctoral Conference, Columbia; Econometric Society Interdisciplinary Frontiers conference on Economics and AI+ML, Cornell; Stella Matutina, Switzerland.

earlier

Seminars and presentations

Management Division, Columbia Business School; Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell; Department of Global Development, Cornell; Charles River Associates, Boston.

03Affiliations and skills

PhD student at MIT Sloan, in the Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management (TIES) group. Research affiliate of the Innovation Growth Lab, a research network on innovation and entrepreneurship policy led by Nesta. Approved researcher with UK Biobank.

I work mostly in Python, R and Stata, and also use Java, MATLAB and SQL. Methods I use a lot include causal inference, language models for turning text into data, and mapping and spatial analysis (ArcGIS, Folium, kepler.gl).