Chaitanya “CK” Kaligotla is an Assistant Professor at the Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University. He earned his Ph.D. in Decision Sciences from INSEAD in 2016, building an interdisciplinary academic portfolio. CK has previously worked as a Computational Social Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering at the University of Chicago. With a robust academic background, CK has extensive experience across global industry sectors including management consulting, analytics, and manufacturing operations. He is dedicated to educating and mentoring a diverse range of students at SFU, teaching courses in Analytics, Machine Learning and AI in Business, and Quantitative Methods at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels. His research focuses on integrating machine learning and computational analytical techniques to study information diffusion and decision-making in complex systems, addressing pressing challenges in public health and information sciences. CK’s research has received funding from prestigious organizations such as the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Simon Fraser University, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and various public corporations.