Biography:Rahul Telang

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Short description: American professor and management scientist

Rahul Telang is an Information Systems and Management professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy.[1] He is known for his book Streaming, Sharing, Stealing, which he co-authored with Michael D. Smith.[2]

His scholarly work has been published in Management Science, Marketing Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and the Journal of Marketing Research, and he serves on the editorial boards of these journals.[3]

His research focuses on the economic and policy implications of digital technologies, particularly in the media, entertainment, cybersecurity, and privacy sectors.[4]

Education and career

Telang earned his Ph.D. in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University.[5]

He has been a faculty member at the Heinz College of Carnegie Mellon University since 2002, primarily teaching in the School of Information Systems and Management.[6] He also holds a courtesy appointment at the Tepper School of Business.[7]

Before pursuing his PhD, he completed his Bachelor of Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS, Pilani), India.[8]

Research

Rahul has made contributions to the media industry, with a focus on music and film.[9] In the early 2000s, when he started his career, Napster and then BitTorrent-based protocols made music and movie infringement commonplace.[10] He conducted a series of research on the role of piracy in demand, supply, innovation, and the role of copyrights and policymaking.[11] He and his colleague, Michael Smith, established a research center, Initiative for Digital Entertainment Analytics (IDEA).[12] The center examines various economic and policy issues surrounding the entertainment industry.[13] In 2016, he wrote a book, “Streaming Sharing Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment,” with his colleague, Michael Smith.[14]

His other area of research is the economics of Information Security.[15] In the early 2000s, the lack of software security became a significant concern as numerous data breaches became common due to buggy products.[16] He wrote a series of papers on what makes software unique, which enables firms to sell such products successfully in the market.[13] His work outlines the impact of policymaking on improving software security and mitigating consumer losses.[17] He has won awards and is the recipient of grants, including the NSF Career Award,[1] the Alfred Sloan Foundation, and a grant from the NSA.[18]

He was the chair of the PhD program from 2014 until 2019, when he suffered a serious injury (TBI) when he fell 20 feet from his attic.[19][20]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mervis, Jeffrey. "Data check: Not so EAGER for NSF funding?" (in en). https://www.science.org/content/article/data-check-not-so-eager-nsf-funding. 
  2. ↑ Wild, Jane (2016-09-11). "Review: 'Streaming, Sharing, Stealing', by Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang". Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/692b038e-4e99-11e6-8172-e39ecd3b86fc. 
  3. ↑ "Learn About the Evolution of Issues Involving Bug Bounty Programs in This Active Cyber™ Interview with Dr. Rahul Telang" (in en-US). 2024-02-29. https://activecyber.net/learn-about-the-evolution-of-issues-involving-bug-bounty-programs-in-this-active-cyber-interview-with-dr-rahul-telang/. 
  4. ↑ Detrixhe, John. "Hacking is inevitable, so it's time to assume our data will be stolen" (in en). https://qz.com/1098062/massive-hacks-like-equifax-and-yahoo-are-inevitable-so-its-time-to-assume-our-data-will-be-stolen. 
  5. ↑ Frey, Barry (2016-10-21). "A DPAA Q&A with Rahul Telang of Carnegie Mellon University" (in en). https://www.mediavillage.com/article/dpaa-qa-with-rahul-telang/. 
  6. ↑ "Industry Voices: Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon University – Content Cafe Australia". https://contentcafe.org.au/articles-stories-everything/insights-from-industry-insiders-michael-d-smith-and-rahul-telang/. 
  7. ↑ "Centre for Software & IT Management to host research seminar on 'Anticoagulant Session to be led by Prof. Rahul Telang of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh". https://www.iimb.ac.in/index.php/node/12390. 
  8. ↑ "Rahul Telang". https://engineering.cmu.edu/directory/bios/telang-rahul.html. 
  9. ↑ "How Technology Shocked the Entertainment Industry" (in en-US). https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/podcast/knowledge-at-wharton-podcast/how-tech-shocked-the-entertainment-industry/. 
  10. ↑ Telang, Rahul; Waldfogel, Joel (2018-06-01). "Piracy and new product creation: A Bollywood story". Information Economics and Policy 43: 1–11. doi:10.1016/j.infoecopol.2018.03.002. ISSN 0167-6245. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167624517301348. 
  11. ↑ Danaher, Brett; Smith, Michael D.; Telang, Rahul (2017-01-23). "Copyright enforcement in the digital age". Communications of the ACM 60 (2): 68–75. doi:10.1145/2979673. ISSN 0001-0782. https://doi.org/10.1145/2979673. 
  12. ↑ University, Carnegie Mellon. "Book - Initiative for Digital Entertainment Analytics - Carnegie Mellon University" (in en). https://www.cmu.edu/entertainment-analytics/book/index.html. 
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Rahul Telang: The Impact of Streaming on the Entertainment Industry" (in en-US). 2021-02-24. https://amt-lab.org/podcasts-interviews/2021/2/rahul-telang-streaming-in-the-entertainment-industry. 
  14. ↑ Benjamin, Ashley (2025-07-10). "Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment - Publications" (in en-US). https://techpolicyinstitute.org/publications/bigdata/streaming-sharing-stealing-big-data-and-the-future-of-entertainment-2/. 
  15. ↑ https://conference.nber.org/confer/2018/DTs18/smith2.pdf Understanding Media Markets in the Digital Age Economics and Methodology Brett Danaher, Samita Dhanasobhon, Michael D. Smith, and Rahul Tela
  16. ↑ "Professor Rahul Telang - Business RadioX ® -" (in en-US). 2023-08-09. https://businessradiox.com/podcast/highvelocityradio/professor-rahul-telang/. 
  17. ↑ Arora, Ashish; Telang, Rahul; Xu, Hao (2005). "Optimal Policy for Software Vulnerability Disclosure". SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.669023. ISSN 1556-5068. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=669023. 
  18. ↑ Bhattacharjee, Sudip; Gopal, Ram; Marsden, James R.; Sankaranarayanan, Ramesh; Telang, Rahul (2009-12-01). "To theme or not to theme: Can theme strength be the music industry's "killer app"?". Decision Support Systems. Information product markets 48 (1): 141–149. doi:10.1016/j.dss.2009.07.005. ISSN 0167-9236. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167923609001547. 
  19. ↑ https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1454&context=thirdcircuit_2024 Rahul Telang v. NVR Inc
  20. ↑ "United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit No. 23-1803 Rahul Telang; NVR, Inc. trading and doing business as NVR, Inc.". https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1454&context=thirdcircuit_2024. 



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