Full Professor of Information Systems Management and Policy

School of Information Systems & Management, Heinz College

Department of Engineering and Public Policy, College of Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University (contact: pedrof@cmu.edu)

UPDATED CV

AWARDS

A. Faculty Awards

2018: Information Systems Society S. Slaughter Early Career Award, INFORMS

2015: NOS Communications Faculty Award for work in entertainment analytics

2011: Time Warner Faculty Award for work on impact of broadband in education

B. Best Paper Awards

2018: Best Paper Award in the Data Science track, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)

Paper: "The Impact of TSTV on the Consumption of Media"

2017: Best Paper Award in the Economics of IS track, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)

Paper: "The Effect of Website Blocking on Piracy"

2014: Best Conference Paper Award, ASE International Conference on Social Computing (ICSC)

Paper: “The Role of Peer Influence in Churn in Wireless Networks"

C. Grants

2021: IDEA Grant, CMU, “Worldwide VoD Streaming Availability and Piracy”

2020: Koch Foundation, “The Value of Online Certifications”

2020: CMU-Portugal Grant, “Using Analytics to Improve Healthcare”

2020: IDEA Grant, CMU, “The Effect of GDPR on the Ability to Track Pirates”

2019: Block Center Grant, CMU, “Better Videos for better Education”

2017: IDEA Grant, CMU, “The Effect of DNS Site Blocking on Piracy Behavior”

2015: NSF, US, “Modeling the Economics of Search-Engine Manipulation”

2014: NSF, US, “Policies for Cellular Television”

2011: Wharton CA Initiative, “Modeling Mobile Customer Behavior with CDRs”

2009: CMU-Portugal Grant, “Technology Management and Policy for Telecoms”

2009: Portuguese NSF, “Exploring Large Scale Datasets for Churn Prediction”