Prof. Soumya Sen is the 3M Fellow in Business Analytics, the Technological Leadership Institute Management of Technology MS program faculty, and Associate Professor of Information & Decision Sciences at the Carlson School of Management of the University of Minnesota. He received the B.E. (Hons.) in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from BITS-Pilani, India, in 2005, and both the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008 and 2011, respectively, during which he collaborated with faculties from both engineering and the Wharton Business School. He carried out his postdoctoral research at the Princeton University before joining the University of Minnesota. Soumya’s research takes a multi-disciplinary approach involving computer networks, economics, and human-computer interaction. His research interests are in Internet economics, digital communication systems, and data analytics for societal good.

Soumya has published in and served as a reviewer for several highly cited IEEE and ACM conferences and journals. His research articles have received media coverage in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, MIT Technology Review, Forbes, Star Tribune, ACM Tech News, Discovery, Politico, as well as several European news media. Soumya received the 2022 UMN Community-Engaged Scholar Award, 2022 Outstanding Service Award from Carlson School, 2021 INFORMS ISS Design Science Award, 2021 Silver Stevie Awards from the American Business Association, 2021 AACSB Innovations that Inspire Award, 2021 Faculty Interactive Research Program Award from the Center for Urban & Regional Affairs, Poets & Quants 40U40 Best Business School Professors in 2021, McKnight Presidential Fellowship from the University of Minnesota in 2019, Carlson School's Outstanding Research Award in 2019, Jim & Mary Lawrence Fellowship in 2018, Adobe Digital Experience Research Award in 2018, IEEE INFOCOM Best Workshop Paper Award in 2017, Timothy Nantell Teaching Grant Award in 2016, Carlson School's Outstanding Service Award in 2016, INFORMS ISS Design Science Award 2014, Grant-in-Aid Award from the University of Minnesota in 2014, Princeton Keller Center Innovation Award in 2013, BITSAA 30 under 30 Award in 2012, IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Award in 2012, and was a finalist at the 2011 Vodafone Wireless Innovation project.

Soumya is the founder of the "Smart Data Pricing" (SDP) Forum, which promotes industry-academic interaction on Internet pricing research. He has been the Chair of international SDP workshops from 2012 – 2016 and its Steering Committee member since 2016. He is also a co-founder of a startup, DataMi, which provides Internet pricing solutions for telecom providers around the world. Soumya is the editor of a book titled "Smart Data Pricing", published by J. Wiley & Sons. He served as the academic director for Carlson's Master of Science in Business Analytics & Artificial Intelligence (MSBAi) program in 2021-2022, and is presently the faculty director of Carlson Executive Education's Cloud Computing bootcamp. He is also the director of research of the Management Information Systems Research Center (MISRC) at the Carlson School of Management.