Guest Profile:

Timothy DeStefano is an Economist-Research Scientist at the Harvard Business School in the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH). He is an applied economist with expertise in the areas of digital technology, artificial intelligence (AI), industrial robotics, firm productivity and trade. His current work at the lab focuses on constructing empirical frameworks and field experiments to estimate the causal effects of AI on firm performance.

Abstract: 

Timothy DeStefano will talk about the issues：

1.What is the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard?

2.What are the areas of study at the lab?

3.Why are we studying AI at LISH?

4. What are some of the initial results we find?

5. Other research pillars of LISH? Tim’s works have been published in prestigious innovation journals such as Technovation and others.