Ananya Sen is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College. Ananya's research interests centre around platforms with a special focus on the media, innovation and more broadly the digital economy. He uses a variety of empirical techniques to analyze data from field experiments as well as observational data to gain insight into broad research questions. Before moving to Carnegie Mellon, he was a Post Doctoral Associate at MIT Sloan School of Management. He received a Ph.D in Economics from the Toulouse School of  Economics.