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, where I grew up on free school meals, on subsidised education, worked as a paper delivery boy from 13, and grew up in a single-parent household. I now live in SF, where I 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' and was invited to be a 2026 IHS Fellow.

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...