Paramveer Dhillon
Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan
Paramveer Dhillon is a Research Affiliate at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan.
Paramveer’s research broadly involves making careful empirical measurements (both causal and predictive) from big data and draws on ideas from Computer Science, Statistics, Sociology & Applied Econometrics. Substantively, he is interested in understanding the value drivers in digital & social products and the strategies that firms should adopt in developing them. In one stream of research he is investigating digital paywall strategy for newspapers (in partnership with The New York Times and Boston Globe) and in an another stream of research, he is working on finding efficient targeting strategies in social networks (to maximize the size of viral diffusion cascades).Paramveer holds an A.M. in Statistics and M.S.E & Ph.D. in Computer & Information Science (CIS), all from the University of Pennsylvania. His doctoral dissertation won the Morris & Dorothy Rubinoff Best Dissertation Award. His doctoral dissertation, which was on statistical Machine Learning & Natural Language Processing (NLP), proposed simple linear spectral learning methods that give accuracies comparable to or better than state-of-the-art “deep-learning” algorithms on text data and has been published in top tier journals/conferences.
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August 28, 2026
- Paramveer Dhillon | Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan
This paper looks at the market for generative AI-generated books and how AI is reshaping a creative market through scale rather than quality.
March 23, 2024
- Paramveer Dhillon | Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan
Bohan Zhang
Yixin Wang
March 7, 2024
- Paramveer Dhillon | Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan
Md Sanzeed Anwar
Grant Schoenebeck
February 18, 2024
- Paramveer Dhillon | Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan
October 19, 2021
- Paramveer Dhillon | Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan
Antonis Photiou
October 30, 2020
- Sinan Aral | Director, MIT IDE; Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
- Paramveer Dhillon | Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan
- Dean Eckles | Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
May 21, 2018
- Sinan Aral | Director, MIT IDE; Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
- Paramveer Dhillon | Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan
June 22, 2016
- Sinan Aral | Director, MIT IDE; Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
- Paramveer Dhillon | Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan