Dr. Kalinda Ukanwa is an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. A quantitative modeler, Kalinda researches how algorithmic bias, algorithmic decision-making, and consumer reputations impact firms.
She is the winner of the 2018 Eli Jones Promising Young Scholar Award and a finalist for the 2018 INFORMS Service Science Best Student Paper Award, 2019 Howard/AMA Doctoral Dissertation Award, and the 2020 AMS Mary Kay Doctoral Dissertation Award. Prior to joining USC, Kalinda was an industrial engineer, financial analyst, and finance executive at Walt Disney, Citigroup, Viacom, and Kaplan.
Kalinda holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, as well as an MBA, M.S. and B.S. from Stanford University.
