CK Kaligotla
- Assistant Professor, Management Information System
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Room: SGL 4920
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Email: c_k@sfu.ca
Biography
Chaitanya “CK” Kaligotla is an Assistant Professor at Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University. Earning his Ph.D. in Decision Sciences from INSEAD in 2016, CK has since built an interdisciplinary academic portfolio. He formerly worked as a Computational Social Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering at The University of Chicago.
Beyond academia, CK boasts an extensive background in global industry sectors, including management consulting, analytics, and manufacturing operations. As a dedicated educator, he offers a broad curriculum at SFU, teaching courses in Analytics, Machine Learning/AI for Business, and Quantitative Methods. His pedagogical reach extends to undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students.
CK’s research blends machine learning with computational and analytical approaches to study information diffusion and decision-making in complex systems. His work focuses on pressing challenges in public health and the information sciences. His research has been supported by grants from various organizations such as the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Simon Fraser University (SFU), the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), and various public corporations.
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Selected Publications
articles and reports
Wulczyn, F., Kaligotla, C., Hummel, J., Wagner, A., & MacLeod, A. (2024). Agent-based simulation and child protection systems: Rationale, implementation, and verification. Child Abuse and Neglect, 147. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106578
Hotton, A. L., Ozik, J., Kaligotla, C., Collier, N., Collier, N., Stevens, A., Khanna, A. S., MacDonell, M. M., MacDonell, M. M., Wang, C., Wang, C., LePoire, D. J., Chang, Y. S., Martinez-Moyano, I. J., Mucenic, B., Pollack, H. A., Schneider, J. A., & Macal, C. (2022). Impact of changes in protective behaviors and out-of-household activities by age on COVID-19 transmission and hospitalization in Chicago, Illinois. Annals of Epidemiology, 76, 165-173. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2022.06.005
Kaligotla, C., Yücesan, E., & Chick, S. E. (2022). Diffusion of competing rumours on social media. Journal of Simulation, 16(3), 230-250. http://doi.org/10.1080/17477778.2020.1785345
Lindau, S. T., Makelarski, J. A., Kaligotla, C., Abramsohn, E. M., Beiser, D. G., Chou, C., Collier, N., Huang, E. S., Macal, C. M., Ozik, J., & Tung, E. L. (2021). Building and experimenting with an agent-based model to study the population-level impact of CommunityRx, a clinic-based community resource referral intervention. Plos Computational Biology, 17(10). http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009471
Kaligotla, C., Ozik, J., Collier, N., Macal, C. M., Boyd, K., Makelarski, J., Huang, E. S., & Lindau, S. T. (2020). Model exploration of an information-based healthcare intervention using parallelization and active learning. JASSS, 23(4), 1-30. http://doi.org/10.18564/jasss.4379
Mintz, M., Macal, C., Guo, Z., Kaligotla, C., Wang, Y., & Zhou, Y. (2019). Agent-Based Transportation Energy Analysis Model: Methodology and Initial Results. United States Government. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1618117
books chapters and monographs
Macal, C., & Kaligotla, C. (2017). Social and Behavioral Simulation. In Tolk, A., Fowler, J., Shao, G., & Yucesan, E. (Eds.), Advances in Modeling and Simulation: Seminal Research from 50 Years of Winter Simulation Conferences (Simulation Foundations, Methods and Applications) (pp. 315-332). Springer Nature Switzerland AG.