Ishita Chakraborty

                 Marketing Professor,  NLP-AI Enthusiast, Foodie and Blogger

I am an Assistant Professor in the marketing area and the first Thomas and Charlene Landsberg Smith Faculty Fellow in the Wisconsin School of Business in UW Madison. My areas of interest are applications of AI and unstructured data analytics in Marketing.


My research has been published in premium marketing journals like Journal of Marketing Research and Review of Marketing Research. My dissertation based JMR article is a co-winner of the Donald R. Lehmann Award, 2023. My dissertation was awarded an honorary mention at the John A. Howard Doctoral Dissertation Awards, 2022 and has won the AMS/Mary Kay Doctoral Dissertation Award.


I have a PhD in Quantitative Marketing area from Yale School of Management and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta! Prior to starting doctoral studies at Yale, I worked in marketing , sales and consulting in the Asia Pac region for Accenture Management Consulting & Mondelez International.

Ishita CV (Updated July 2023)

News

Co-Winner, Donald R. Lehmann Award 2023

Patent granted - https://patents.justia.com/patent/11574266

Received WARF (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation) grant for Fall 2023 for research on negotiations using Video Data

Paper `` AI applications to Consumer Feedback Research: A review" accepted at Review of Marketing Research (Special Issue on AI and Marketing)

Winner, Mary Kay Doctoral Dissertation Awards 2022

First Runner Up, EMAC Doctoral Dissertation Awards 2022

Honorable mention in 2022 John A. Howard (AMA) Doctoral Dissertation Awards

Talks/Conferences (2023)

ACR Seattle, Special Session on Empathy, Oct 2023

Choice Symposium, Session on Platforms, INSEAD 2023

Marketing Science, June 2023 (scheduled)

AI Distinguished Speaker Series, Fox Business School, Temple University, April 2023 (scheduled)


Brij Disa Centre for Data Science and AI, IIM-Ahmedabad, January 2023


Winter AMA, Special Session on Topical Advancements in Digital Marketing, Nashville, Feb 2023 

Talks/Conferences (2022)

Marketing Seminar, Dartmouth College, Oct 2022 (Virtual)

Marketing Science Conference, June 2022 (Virtual)

Marketing Seminar, University of Maryland, April 2022

UTD Bass Conference, March, March 2022 (Virtual)

AMS Annual Conference, May 2022, Monterey CA

EMAC Annual Conference, May 2022, Budapest