Nicholas B. - Cohort 2025
AI Researcher Spotlight
My title is Graduate Assistant AI Researcher, and I am working with the Artificial Intelligence and Business Analytics Lab (AiBAL), directed by Professor Minder Chen. Dr. Chen guides and inspires me to pursue research that both relates to my interests and fulfills the lab’s mandate, under a grant from the M. Scott Funding for Existing Academic Programs initiative. This includes using AI to amplify the knowledge I gained from my Rhetoric and Ecology bachelor’s degrees at U.C. Berkeley, my MBA at CI, and my current studies in CI’s Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) program.
Overall, I am thrilled to have so many opportunities to learn about AI and business
analytics, in conjunction with the informative studies I do for my coursework in the
MSBA program. The professors’ expertise, my classmates’ technical and professional
backgrounds, and the collegial environment on campus make for enriching pursuits in
both the classroom and real-world applications. I feel very excited to have found
at CI a
career path that fascinates me and that currently sees high demand in so many
businesses, government settings, academia, and other industries