Ram Bala is an Associate Professor of AI & Analytics at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business. In addition to his cutting edge research on pricing, marketplace design, and supply chain decisions in dynamic markets, he has built products around these applications at leading startups and Fortune 500 companies. He is actively involved in AI-driven business transformation, co-leading the Prometheus Lab on AI and Business, and co-founding Samvid, an Agentic AI startup for enterprise decision making and collaboration.