Kris Gulati

"Science is the best thing that has happened to humans, but we can do it much better." Ioannidis

I'm a fifth-year PhD student (and on the job market next year - '26/'27!!) interested in strategy and innovation, with a penchant for experiments. I think a lot about three things:

1. What is the role and influence of politics in organisations and on science/innovation?

2. How can we create better institutions to organise and manage science/innovation?

3. How will AI affect science/innovation?

Update: I'm spending the remainder of my PhD in Berkeley where I'm being advised by Abhishek Nagaraj in the Data Innovation Lab!

• I visited Dartmouth Jan - April '24 (hosted by Heidi Williams)

• I visited Berkeley Haas '23 - '24 (hosted by Solène Delecourt)

• I visited Harvard Business School '22 - '23 (hosted by Kyle Myers and Rem Koning)  

Let's chat: I'm happy to speak via Zoom!! Send me an email at kgulati@berkeley.edu. @krisgulati on Twitter/X.

Other: I was born/raised in London, live in SF, and work from Mox. I'm interested in effective altruism (I won two EA Forum comment prizes when they existed!), rationalist content, and progress studies. In my spare time, I like to do origami, sketch (bad) portraits, play VR video games, and try not to end up in my own dataset. In a former life, I used to be a badminton player (yes, it's a real sport), and still occasionally dabble. I'm an Emergent Ventures fellow (a programme run by Tyler Cowen). I won the 2024 IHS Research Award for my work on the 'Politics of Science and Innovation'.

Many people ask me if I'm related to Ranjay Gulati (Harvard Business School) and there's no relationship. I hope I can live up to the family name...