Seyed Emadi is an Associate Professor of Operations at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. He holds a Ph.D. from Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern) and B.Sc./M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. His research focuses on theoretical foundations of machine learning and AI, econometric methodology and causal inference, and empirical operations management, particularly understanding consumer decision-making through methods ranging from structural estim