
Vasant Dhar
· Professor of Information SystemsNew York University · Computer Science and Engineering
Active 1983–2025
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About
Vasant Dhar is associated with the New York University Stern School of Business, where he is involved with the Stern Center for Research Computing (SCRC). The center provides computational facilities and services to researchers, including a Slurm HPC cluster, cloud computing resources, data acquisition and storage, research software, and access to the Wharton Research Data System (WRDS). The focus of the center is to support advanced computational research and data analysis through a comprehensive suite of software services, diverse datasets, and scalable storage systems. His work emphasizes facilitating research that leverages high-performance computing, data management, and software tools to advance scholarly inquiry at the Stern School of Business.
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Artificial Intelligence
- Psychology
- Engineering
- Cognitive science
- Philosophy
- Mathematics education
- Mechanical engineering
- Epistemology
- Chemistry
Selected publications
FinTech platforms and strategy
Communications of the ACM · 2017-09-25 · 108 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingIntegrating trust and automation in finance.
The Future of Artificial Intelligence
Big Data · 2016-03-01 · 44 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingThe Paradigm Shifts in Artificial Intelligence
Communications of the ACM · 2024 · 32 citations
1st authorCorrespondingEven as we celebrate AI as a technology that will have far-reaching benefits for humanity, trust and alignment remain disconcertingly unaddressed.
FinTech Platforms and Strategy
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2016-01-01 · 31 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingEquity, Safety, and Privacy in the Autonomous Vehicle Era
Computer · 2016-11-01 · 29 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingBig data from onboard vehicular systems can be used to help determine liability in accidents, streamline insurance pricing, motivate better driving practices, and improve safety--all with potentially minimal impact on privacy.
Frequent coauthors
- 10 shared
Matthias Jarke
RWTH Aachen University
- 9 shared
Arun Sundararajan
- 8 shared
Hsinchun Chen
University of Arizona
- 6 shared
Michel Benaroch
Syracuse University
- 6 shared
Parthasarathy Ranganathan
Google (United States)
- 6 shared
Albert Croker
Baruch College
- 4 shared
Foster Provost
- 4 shared
Dashin Chou
New York University
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