Prof Lynn Wu

Professor Lynn L. Wu is Associate Professor in the Operations, Information and Decisions Department at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and Director of Embodied Intelligence at the Mack Institute for Innovation Management. She is a Digital Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI and was previously Research Faculty at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she earned her PhD in Management Science. She also holds degrees in computer science, electrical engineering, and finance from MIT.

A leading scholar on the economics of artificial intelligence and data analytics, her research examines how AI and analytics shape firm innovation, productivity, and labor markets, alongside work on social networks, robotics, and the managerial consequences of automation. Her work has been published in top journals including Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Organization Science, and Academy of Management Annals, and has been recognized with numerous honors, among them the Kauffman Best Paper Award and the Sandy Slaughter Early Career Award. She also writes for practitioner audiences in the Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review.

From 2023 to 2024, Lynn served as an Academic Fellow in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, bringing her expertise in AI and data analytics to bear on competition enforcement. She has been retained as an expert in antitrust and merger litigation, including the RealPage algorithmic collusion litigation concerning real estate pricing software and the HPE-Juniper merger litigation. Her areas of expert opinion span antitrust economics and algorithmic collusion, AI analytics and firm innovation strategy, technology and labor market dynamics, and data analytics and organizational decision-making.