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Assistant Professor
Information Science

Biography

Cristobal Cheyre joined Cornell Information Science as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2019 after completing a post-doctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University. Cheyre’s research focuses on the economic, strategic, and organizational implications of the technologies that are shaping the data economy. Following completion of his PhD in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, he spent two years in Chile as Executive Director of “The Clover 2030 Engineering Strategy”, a strategic initiative to promote entrepreneurship and innovation education, applied research, and technology transfer at the School of Engineering of P. Universidad Catolica de Chile.

Research Interests

• Computational Social Science
• Critical Data Studies
• Data Science
• Economics and Information

Education

• Ph.D. (Engineering and Public Policy), Carnegie Mellon University
• M.Sc. (Engineering Economic Systems), Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
• B.Sc. (Industrial Engineering), Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Websites

• Cristobal Cheyre’s Website