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Avi Goldfarb is the Rotman Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare, and Professor of Marketing, at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Avi is also Chief Data Scientist at Creative Destruction Lab-Toronto, a research lead at the Acceleration Consortium, a Distinguished Fellow at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. A former Senior Editor at Marketing Science, his research focuses on the economics of digital technology and artificial intelligence. He has published academic articles in economics, marketing, computing, law, management, medicine, physics, political science, public health, and statistics. His work on online advertising won the INFORMS Society of Marketing Science Long Term Impact Award, and he testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on competition and privacy in digital advertising, and before the Canadian House of Commons on the AI and Data Act. Heco-authored the bestselling books Prediction Machines and Power and Prediction, both on the economics of artificial intelligence. Avi received a B.A. in economics from Queen’s University and a Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University.
