About Me
I successfully defended my PhD thesis on July 10, 2007 at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. I graduated with my MBA on June 8, 2007 also from MIT Sloan. My PhD thesis was in the area of Management Science (subject area: Economics of Information Technologies). My thesis advisor was Prof. Erik
Brynjolfsson and my thesis committee was composed of Erik (chair), Prof. Stuart Madnick and Dr. Benjamin
Grosof.
I completed an unconventional dual-degree program (PhD+MBA) in approximately 4 years at MIT. Without the support of my
advisor, committee and family, this would not have been possible and for that, I am eternally grateful to all of them.
I now work in the world of TMT (Telecom, Media, Technology) investment banking at Merrill Lynch & Co. in New York.
At MIT, I discovered my passion in finance and I decided to enter the world of finance with specific focus on the TMT
space. Through my professional work, I continue to develop my biggest career-related passions: finance and technology.
Before MIT
Before coming to MIT, I worked as a Senior Software Developer in
Oracle's mobile database group (Oracle
Lite). In yet another life, I
was a graduate student in Computer Science at Stanford University. My
research advisor at Stanford was Dr. David Luckham, who is the Professor
Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Stanford. While at Stanford, I worked as a summer intern in the Network Protocols
Group at Cisco Systems in San Jose, CA.
Prior to coming to Stanford, I did a short stint in Dell Computers' Advanced
Engineering group in Austin, TX.
I graduated in 2.5 years at the top of my class with a Bachelor of Science
from the ECE (Electrical and Computer Engineering) department at
Georgia Institute of Technology.
©2007-2008
Sumit Bhansali