Curious

Jun Li

Curious explores the ideas reshaping how we think, learn, research, work, and create. Through candid conversations with researchers, educators, students, parents, and business professionals, we look beyond the latest technology to ask what is changing, what remains distinctly human, and what we should be curious about next.

Episodes

  1. Aug 6

    When AI Joins the Research Team: What Changes, What Stays Human

    What happens when generative AI becomes more than a research tool—and starts acting like a collaborator? In this episode, Wedad J. Elmaghraby, Marcelo Olivares, Andrew Davis, Maxime Cohen, and Mohsen Bayati examine how AI is changing research questions, methods, collaboration, publishing, education and beyond. They discuss where AI can accelerate discovery, where human judgment remains indispensable, and how researchers and students can prepare for what comes next. Recorded during the AI and the Future of OR/OM Research Panel Discussion at the 2026 Unstructured Data Conference held at Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. The panelists are Mohsen Bayati, the Carl and Marilynn ThomaProfessor of Operations, Information & Technology at Stanford GraduateSchool of Business; Andrew M. Davis, the Breazzano Family Term Professorof Management and Professor of Operations, Technology, and InformationManagement at Cornell University’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School ofManagement; Wedad J. Elmaghraby, Dean’s Chair of Operations Managementat the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business; MaximeCohen, Professor of Retail and Operations Management and Scale AI Chair inData Science for Retail at McGill University; and Marcelo Olivares,Professor in the School of Economics and Business at the University of Chile. The discussion is moderated by Jun Li, Professor of Technologyand Operations, and Andrew Wu, Associate Professor of Technology andOperations, both at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.

    When AI Joins the Research Team: What Changes, What Stays Human
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Curious explores the ideas reshaping how we think, learn, research, work, and create. Through candid conversations with researchers, educators, students, parents, and business professionals, we look beyond the latest technology to ask what is changing, what remains distinctly human, and what we should be curious about next.

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  • Creator
    Jun Li
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    1
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Jun Li
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    Curious