Sandra Matz

Sandra Matz is the David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School in New York, where she also serves as the Co-Director of the Center for Advanced Technology and Human Performance. As a computational social scientist with a background in psychology and computer science, Matz studies human behavior by uncovering the hidden relationships between our digital footprints and our inner mental lives. Her goal is to make data relatable and help individuals, businesses and policy makers use data in more effective and ethical ways. Over the last ten years she has published more than fifty academic papers in the world’s leading peer-reviewed journals, and has shared her findings with business leaders, policymakers, and the broader public through news articles, op-eds, keynote speeches, podcasts, TV appearances, and consulting work. Matz has won numerous awards for her research and teaching, including Poets and Quants’ Best 40-Under-40 MBA professors; Capital Magazine’s Young Elite Top 40 Under 40; World Frontiers Forum Young Pioneers; Pacific Standard Magazine’s Top 30 Thinkers Under 30; and DataIQ’s 100 Most Influential People in Data.