Rahul Telang is Trustees professor of Information systems at the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University and at the Tepper School of Business (Courtesy).

 Professor Telang is broadly interested in how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and associated digitization of information impact consumers, businesses, and policies. Recently, he has been working on the future of work, the value of users’ skills, and skill training. He has done a lot of work on the Digital Media Industry with a particular focus on how digitization (and associated piracy) in copyrighted industries is affecting the incentives of content providers, distributors, and users. His research is directed towards understanding and shaping an optimal copyright and intellectual property policy in the Digitization Era. He was the recipient of Sloan Foundation Industry Study fellowship and a number of Google Faculty awards. He co-directors of center IDEA (Initiative for Digital Entertainment Analytics).  He has worked extensively with industry and policy makers on variety of issue surrounding digitization of Media.  He also extensively consulted on this topic and has written a popular book.

 He has worked in on information security and privacy domain. His key interest is understanding the incentives of various parties (users, firms, and hackers), why markets fail, how to create a useful policy framework, and how to measure the effectiveness of such policies. His work explored the controversy surrounding vulnerability disclosure, vulnerability markets, and their role in generating optimal outcomes. He has examined the role of Apple privacy labels and bug bounty programs. He was the recipient of the NSF CAREER award for his work on the economics of information security. He is also part of Cylab and Institute for Infrastructure Protection (I3P). He also worked on a large NSA-funded project that examined home users’ security and privacy behavior.

 Some of his other work has explored the role of broadband in schools, ICTs in the form of EMR (Electronic Medical Records) in hospitals, and so on. Currently, he is working on many projects to estimate the value of skills and training skills to users.

 Dr. Telang has published extensively in many top management and policy journals, such as Management Science, Marketing Science, ISR, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Policy and Management, and NBER chapters. He held senior editor positions at Management Science, ISR (Information Systems Research) and MIS Quarterly. Many of his papers have received top honors at journals and conferences. Over the years, he has generated large external funding for many of his projects.

Dr. Telang does extensive consulting and speaking at various firms. In particular, he has been working closely with Disney and Warner Brothers on their streaming and Home Entertainment business strategy, including pricing, streaming, and licensing strategies.

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