PhD
Information Technology
MIT Sloan’s Information Technology PhD group fosters cutting-edge research on the economic, business, and organizational impacts of digital technologies. Students are expected to master information technologies and information theory principles, exploring their organizational and economic implications. The group addresses research questions related to the digital economy, organizational transformation, and new business models, leveraging the interdisciplinary expertise of faculty from economics, management science, computer science, organizational behavior, and psychology. Notable faculty include John Horton, who focuses on labor markets and digital platforms; Manish Raghavan, who examines the societal impacts of computational tools; and Thomas Malone, who studies collective intelligence and organizational design.
Research from Information Technology Faculty
Bringing transparency to the data used to train AI
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Using the wrong datasets to train AI models can result in legal risks, bias, or lower-quality models. The Data Provenance Initiative’s tool can help.
What’s your company’s ‘AI maturity’ level?
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Are you experimenting with artificial intelligence, or are you “AI future-ready”? A new model maps four stages of enterprise AI maturity.
When humans and AI work best together
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A combination of AI and humans works best in tasks where humans outperform AI and in those that involve creating content.
5 cybersecurity priorities that demand your attention
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Security leaders must strengthen their defenses against everyday threats while preparing for potentially devastating attacks. Here’s how to get it done.
Select Information Technology Faculty
Full-Time Faculty
Abdullah Almaatouq
Douglas Drane Career Development Assistant Professor in Information Technology and Management
Abdullah Almaatouq is a computational social scientist and the Douglas Drane Career Development Assistant Professor in Information Technology and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Abdullah’s research focuses on improving cooperation,…
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Sinan Aral
David Austin Professor of Management
Sinan Aral is a global authority on business analytics; award-winning researcher; entrepreneur, and venture capitalist who is ranked among the top 50 management scholars in the world and was rated the World’s “Top Digital Thinker” in 2021. He is the…
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John J. Horton
Associate Professor, Information Technology
John Horton is an Associate Professor of Information Technologies at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Horton's research focuses on the intersection of labor economics, market design, and information systems. He is particularly interested in…
Learn MoreExample PhD Thesis Topics
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Alex Moehring (2024)
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Sebastian Steffen (2022)
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David Holtz (2021)