Weatherhead School of Management

Take a deep dive into the most important element of digitalization: talent. At the Digital Futures Conference, members of the community can learn from their peers in small group, interactive sessions covering culture change, building design capabilities and upskilling. Conference participants will ...

Traditionally, many technologists used to take the naive position that “technology is value-natural.” However, with incidents such as Cambridge Analytica and Theranos, most people understand the design and use of powerful digital technology can indeed have powerful consequences. As the role of digit...

Congratulations to xLab founder and faculty director, Youngjin Yoo, on two recent awards: the 2022 Faculty Distinguished Research Award from Case Western Reserve University and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Management....

Congratulations to Erman Ayday, xLab professor and assistant professor in the Department of Computer and Data Science, for being awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) grant. The CAREER award is considered the agency’s most significant grant for...

ShareTrace: Contact Tracing with the Actor Model IEEE HealthCom 2022 Ryan Tatton, Erman Ayday, Youngjin Yoo, Anisa Halimi Proximity-based contact tracing relies on user-device interaction to estimate the spread of disease. ShareTrace is one such approach that improves the efficacy of tracking disea...

Varun Nagaraj Dr. Varun Nagaraj has had a 30-year career in product innovation in Boston and Silicon Valley, during which he held CEO and other executive leadership roles at several venture-funded start-ups and public companies developing communications, computing, IoT, and AI products. He was also...

Where Can We Start? This article is a part of the DEI Resource Highlight series. Receiving an invitation to a co-worker’s child’s high school graduation party or informal happy hour. Acquiring information about how to navigate the promotion process for your current role. Gaining access to resourc...

Universal Learning and Employment (LER) Ecosystem: Privacy-Preserving Verifiable Credentialing Solution Earlier in the year, xLab faculty members Youngjin Yoo and Erman Ayday were awarded a grant with the Walmart Foundation to develop a white paper identifying key socio-technical challenges and pri...

Students are invited to a networking happy hour to learn more about xLab and how they can become involved. This event will be held Thursday, Sept. 9, 3:30 to 5 p.m. Attendees can mingle with representatives from current and prospective xLab member companies as well as past/current xLab students. Le...

The Business of Building a Better World, written and edited by Weatherhead School of Management Professor David Cooperrider, along with co-author Audrey Selian, is among 10 finalists for “best book of the year” in the category of business impact for getAbstract's annual book awards. getAbstract rec...