Failing Well: Generating New Ideas with Sendhil Mullainathan

Thu May 21 2026 at 05:00 pm to 06:00 pm UTC+01:00

Garden Quad Auditorium, St John's College | Oxford

St John's College
Publisher/HostSt John's College
Failing Well: Generating New Ideas with Sendhil Mullainathan
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St John's welcomes Professor Sendhil Mullainathan (MIT) for an exploration of failing well.
About this Event

Professor Sendhil Mullainathan is the Peter de Florez Professor at MIT where he splits his time between the Economics and the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments. His current research is at the intersection of algorithms and people, with a central focus on launching The Bike Shop @ MIT. This is a new research centre which works towards more human-centered AI through scalable bicycles for the mind, and innovative new gears for machine learning algorithms.

Professor Mullainathan enjoys writing, having co-authored Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (2013) as well as having written regularly for the New York Times.

He is active in the application of research insights. He helped co-found a non-profit to apply behavioral science (ideas42); co-founded a center to promote the use of randomized control trials in development (the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab), and co-founded Dandelion Health, a company that provides the healthcare data needed to build breakthrough medical AI.

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Garden Quad Auditorium, St John's College, St Giles', Oxford, United Kingdom

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