Dr. Malar Hirudayaraj is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management, Saunders College of Business, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. She is also the Director of ADVANCE, RIT, a program that intends to increase the representation and retention of women faculty and support them in advancing in their careers. Dr. Hirudayaraj has a Ph.D. in Workforce Education and Development. Her research interests cover issues of gender, inequality, and employability of disadvantaged populations. More recently, she has forayed into studying the implications of Artificial Intelligence integration in organizations.
She has worked in the media and the not-for-profit sector and has also trained more than 5000 professionals in the corporate sector. She also created one of India’s earliest employability programs for rural youth for the World Bank.