14 Facts About Ajay Agrawal

Ajay Agrawal founded the Creative Destruction Lab in 2012 at the University of Toronto.

In 2003, Ajay Agrawal joined the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto as an assistant professor.

Ajay Agrawal is the Academic Director of the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Rotman School of Management.

In 2010, Ajay Agrawal co-founded and became the Academic Director of The Next 36, now part of NEXT Canada.

Ajay Agrawal is Founder of the Creative Destruction Lab at the University of Toronto.

Ajay Agrawal is the conference co-chair of 'Machine Learning and the Market for Intelligence' with Shivon Zilis.

Ajay Agrawal has been published in the Harvard Business Review several times.

Ajay Agrawal is co-author of the book Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence, with Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb.

Ajay Agrawal is co-author of the book Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence with Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb.

Ajay Agrawal received the President's Impact Award at the University of Toronto in 2023.

Ajay Agrawal was appointed to the Order of Canada in June 2022.

Ajay Agrawal has been awarded Professor of the Year seven times by MBA classes at the Rotman School of Management, the Martin-Lang Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award in 2017.

Ajay Agrawal was included in the 'Power 50' list of most influential Canadians to watch in business in The Globe and Mail's Report on Business Magazine.

Ajay Agrawal's co-founded company, Kindred AI, was featured at number 29 on MIT Technology Review's 2017 list of smartest companies in the world.