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Learn more about Aamir Rehman, one of our MTM students from the Class of 2024. Aamir is originally from Santa Monica and was a Mechanical Engineering major at UCSB prior to joining MTM. When asked about his favorite aspects of the program, he stated, "The cohort experience. I really like how everyone gets to know each other, because we are in the same classroom everyday with the same people. I really enjoy coming to class every day and getting to see everyone, and talk about the material for the class."

Pamela Hinds, Professor of Management, Science & Engineering, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University

Learn more about Sabrina Chisholm, one of our MTM students from the Class of 2024. Sabrina is originally from Southern California and completed her BA in English at UCSB before joining MTM. When asked what she would tell prospective students of the program, she said, "I think for anyone looking at the program, a Master's in Technology Management is equivalent to a modern-day MBA. It's going to continue to be a super important program as we keep evolving as a society with new technologies such generative AI."

UCSB assistant professor Matt Beane writes a book on how to protect skills in a world filled with AI and robots.  Researcher and technologist Matt Beane, an assistant professor in the Technology Management Department at UC Santa Barbara, is calling attention to an immediate and hidden concern in the modern workplace — and offering a surprising path forward.

Learn more about Shabarita Sivashanmugam, one of our MTM students from the Class of 2024! Shabarita is originally from India, and prior to joining MTM, she worked as a business systems analysis specialist in Edmonton, Canada. She has a Bachelor’s of Technology degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Amrita University and an MBA from the PSG Institute of Management.

Learn more about Micah Gifford, one of our MTM students from the Class of 2024! Micah graduated from Southern New Hampshire University in 2023 with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. He joined the U.S. Army back in 2014 and has worked in Operations Management, Intelligence Analysis, and Language Translation. After graduating, he is looking forward to working in a project management role at a technology company. 

Sameer Srivastava, Professor of Business Administration & Public Policy, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Sekou Bermiss, Associate Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship, UNC Kenon-Flagler
 

What is the worst case scenario for a budding entrepreneur’s new business? If your answer is business closure, you might also blame their fate on negative performance or trends like economic downturns or problems with demand and production of items. However, research from Jessica Santana (Assistant Professor, Technology Management at UCSB) shows that more stable, often immutable factors like gender and region, which come into play even before a business has started, can contribute just as heavily to the causes and effects of that business’ eventual closure. 

Wanda Orlikowski, Professor of Information Technologies & Organization Studies, Sloan School of Management at MIT
 

It might seem counterintuitive that some cities would ban ridesharing when, from an outside perspective, it seems to widely benefit the general public. Research from within the last decade has even shown that policymakers and ridesharing firms hold similar goals. Why, then, do some cities crack down so hard on ridesharing services like Lyft and Uber, while others don’t? The answer could lie in a study from our own Sukhun Kang (Department of Technology Management at UCSB), along with his co-writers Yongwook Paik (KAIST College of Business) and Robert Seamans (Stern School of Business).

At the mention of tests of machine intelligence, it’s natural to think of the Turing Test. However, what might come up less is the fact that the Turing Test, created at the dawn of the technological age, has actually been successfully passed by modern AI systems. Research from Nelson Phillips (Distinguished Professor of Technology Management at UCSB) and collaborator Mark Thomas Kennedy (Imperial College London) argues that the Turing Test is already out of date, and that it’s time to find new ways to approach the analysis of the intelligence of AI to account for its current knowledge and abilities.