Shawn Mankad

Bio

Shawn Mankad is an Associate Professor of Analytics and the Stephen P. Zelnak Jr. Scholar at NC State’s Poole College of Management. His research centers on the development and application of statistical methods to address critical issues in business, economics, and public policy. He specializes in utilizing text data to explain and predict economic variables, as well as modeling networks to assess the risk of systemic failure. His interdisciplinary work has been supported by NSF funding and published in leading outlets across the fields of Statistics, Operations Management, Information Systems, and Finance. Before joining NC State, Professor Mankad held faculty positions at Cornell University and the University of Maryland and was a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. He earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University and a PhD in statistics from the University of Michigan.