Bio
Michal Kosinski is the Assistant Professor in Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. Prior to entering academia, he founded a successful ITC startup and served as a brand manager for a major digital brand. After receiving his PhD in Psychology from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2014, Kosinski spent a year as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. Kosinski’s research had a significant impact on both academia and the industry. His findings featured in The Economist’s special report on the future of insurance (2015), inspired two TED talks, and prompted a discussion in the EU Parliament. In 2013, Kosinski was listed among the 50 most influential people in Big Data by DataIQ and IBM, while two of his papers were placed in the “Top 100 Papers That Most Caught the Public Imagination” (#9 and #21)