Center for Analytical Research in Technology (CART)

The Center for Analytical Research in Technology (CART) was founded in the summer of 2004 by Deans Ken Dunn  and R. Ravi  to promote one of the key missions of the Tepper School: advancing technology-enabled analytical decision-making processes for business, management, and economics.

Technological advances have led to a proliferation of research questions in business and economics. CART promotes research that defines and studies these questions using an analytical framework, new methodologies and computationally intensive solutions.

A second theme is to leverage the current leadership position of the Tepper School at Carnegie Mellon University in the application of technological advances in data collection and analysis to decision-making problems. This emphasis is set to capitalize on Carnegie Mellon's strengths in technological innovation and its rich tradition in defining new directions for research in management problems.

The center funds faculty members that engage in high-risk high-return projects that define and study new research questions enabled by technology. The center also provides research grants to promising Tepper Ph.D. students. In addition, the center sponsors two annual awards for outstanding research contributions. Finally, the center aims to provide a forum to present and discuss exciting new research initiatives. To accomplish this goal, the center organizes a regular seminar series and sponsors special events.

The CART Committee for the 2007-08 academic year consists of Jonathan Glover (Seminar Coordinator), Burton Hollifield (Co-Director and Ph.D. Research Grants Coordinator), Francois Margot (Research Awards Coordinator), Ray Reagans, (Seminar Coordinator), and Holger Sieg (Director and Faculty Research Grants Coordinator). The administrative coordinator for the center is Rosanne Christy (rosanne@andrew.cmu.edu.)