Sofia Bapna sitting on bench

Sofia Bapna

Associate Professor (with tenure) and Lawrence Fellow
Information & Decision Sciences

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Education:

  • PhD 2016
    Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship University of Minnesota
  • Master of Business Administration 2004
    Babson College – F. W. Olin School of Business
  • Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering 1993
    Computer Engineering Manipal Institute of Technology, India

Expertise:

  • gender gaps, entrepreneurship in the digital economy, AI in education

Biography

Sofia Bapna is Associate Professor (with tenure) and Lawrence Fellow at the Carlson School of Management, University of MN. Her research interests lie in the areas gender gaps, entrepreneurship in the digital economy, and AI in education.

Dr. Bapna’s work is inherently multidisciplinary in nature. It integrates perspectives from and contributes to research across information systems, entrepreneurship, and labor markets. Additionally, it employs randomized field experiments and sophisticated econometric methods with a strong focus on causal inference. She complements these approaches with surveys to gain insights into the underlying mechanisms at work. 

A hallmark of Dr. Bapna’s research is that is engages with industry partners. It includes partnerships with a national funding agency that promotes innovation in Austria, an equity crowdfunding platform, a publicly traded staffing company in India, and an organization that hosts events that service the data science and technology community. These collaborations underscore the business relevance of her research.

Dr. Bapna’s work has been published in Management Science, MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research, and is funded by the National Science Foundation, and the Kauffman Foundation. She is a recipient of the INFORMS Information Systems Society’s Sandra A. Slaughter Early Career Award and Gordon B. Davis Young Scholar Awards, the Association for Information Systems’ Early Career Award, and the Carlson School of Management’s Lawrence Fellowship.

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