Curriculum vitae
Ph.D. in Information Systems and Management, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University.
Education
- 2024 – present
- Ph.D. in Information Systems and Management
Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University- Advisors: Rahul Telang and Avinash Collis
- 2017 – 2022
- M.Sc. Economics and B.E. Computer Science (dual degree)
Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani- Ranked first in the Economics cohort and fourth in the Computer Science cohort; graduated with distinction
- Dean's 100% Merit Scholarship in every semester (top 1% of students)
Working papers and research in progress
- News Behind the News: Spillover Effects of AI Crawler Blocking Among News Publishers. Kanav Mor and Rahul Telang. Working paper. To be presented at CIST 2026.
- Impact of AI-Assisted Music Composition on Creativity: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Kanav Mor, Rahul Telang, and Avinash Collis. Work in progress. Field experiment.
- AI Disclosure Labels and Viewer Engagement on YouTube: Evidence from a Natural Experiment. Kanav Mor and Rahul Telang. Work in progress. Data collection ongoing.
Conference presentations
- October 2026
- Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST 2026), San Francisco
News Behind the News: Spillover Effects of AI Crawler Blocking Among News Publishers
Honors and awards
- 2017 – 2022
- Dean's 100% Merit Scholarship, BITS Pilani
Awarded each semester to the top 1% of students. - 2021
- DAAD WISE Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service
Working Internships in Science and Engineering, for a summer research internship at TU Munich. - 2021
- Mitacs Globalink Research Scholarship, Canada
- 2020
- Viterbi-India Scholarship, Indo-US Science and Technology Forum
For a summer research internship at the University of Southern California.
Professional experience
- 2022 – 2024
- Software Engineer, Microsoft
Bing Shopping. Built the price-history experience shown on every shopping page in Bing, ran A/B tests of new features in the Edge browser, and set up monitoring for the Bing Shopping API. - 2022
- Software Engineering Intern, Microsoft
- 2021
- Software Engineering Intern, Nutanix
Security enhancements for Era, Nutanix's database-as-a-service product. - 2019, 2020
- Research Intern, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Fair division (envy-free cake-cutting for agents with arbitrary valuations), and "Internet in a Box", an offline drive of open educational material shipped to thousands of schools in rural India.