Sundararajan Joins UIC Business as Visiting Clinical Professor and Managing Director
Anantha Sundararajan Joins UIC Business
Anantha Sundararajan, Ph.D., joins the Department of Information and Decision Sciences at UIC Business as Visiting Clinical Professor and Managing Director of the Center of Applied Analytics.
Sundararajan most recently served as Chief Data & AI Officer at Dream Sports Group, a leading sports technology company, where he helped advance user experience, engagement and trust for more than 260 million fans across multiple sports AI portfolio companies. His work brought together data science and AI, product, business, risk and operations analytics, real-time intelligence and decision-making capabilities, platform engineering, and technology innovation. In this role, he also founded and co-led the Columbia University-Dream Sports AI Innovation Center, focused on unlocking the potential of AI in sports through research and innovation.
Prior to Dream Sports, Sundararajan served as Chief Digital Officer and Head of Data Science & AI at Novartis Healthcare. There, he helped integrate data science and AI into Novartis’ global competitive strategy, supporting innovations across research, drug discovery and development, portfolio optimization, operations, drug launches, brand strategy and marketing.
Sundararajan also brings extensive experience in e-commerce, fintech and banking. His previous leadership roles include Chief Risk Officer, Head of Decision Sciences and co-founder of Flipkart’s FinTech business; Global Head of Portfolio Quality and Strategic Analytics at JPMorgan Chase Bank; and senior risk management leadership positions at HSBC and Deutsche Bank.