Malthouse is the Erastus Otis Haven Professor and a research fellow at the Media Management Center, a partnership between Medill and Kellogg. He is also the research director of the Medill IMC Spiegel Research Center.
His research interests center on media marketing, database marketing, advertising, new media and integrated marketing communications. He develops statistical models and applies them to large data sets of consumer information to help managers make marketing decisions. Malthouse is also currently the co-editor of “Medill on Media Engagement.” He was the co-editor of the Journal of Interactive Marketing from 2005-2011. His professional experience includes software engineering for AT&T Laboratories, corporate analytics training for Accenture, BNSF, Digitas, Nuoqi and Capital One, and developing segmentations for Cohorts and Financial Cohorts and Motorola.

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Marios is the Founder and Director of the Biometrics Center at Carnegie Mellon University and is a Research Professor at the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department and CMU CyLab.
His research is mainly focused on developing algorithms for robust face and iris biometrics, as well as pattern recognition, machine vision and computer image understanding for enhancing biometric systems performance. Previously, he was the Bossa Nova Robotics Chief AI Scientist where he re-designed the AI analytics stack from ground-up to run out-of-stock inventory analytics autonomously on 550 robots with no human-in-the-loop.

He received his B. Eng. in Microelectronics Systems Engineering from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in the U.K., his Master of Science in Robotics from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, also at Carnegie Mellon University.

Industry recognized pioneer developer and implementer of consolidated supply chain programs, space and category management and devleoped the nation's first retail frequent shopper card program. Acknowledged expert on data analytics and market strategy.
Consultant to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF) in developing accounting Issues for all trade promotion, marketing and advertising expenditures. These Issues have fundamentally changed marketing, advertising, trade and consumer promotion strategies and tactics.
Co-Founder, with Murray Lender of the National Frozen Food Month, for 32 years the Nation's largest food retail promotion program.

Navjit Bhasin is a visionary expert in strategy, technology, operations, and change management. As a veteran entrepreneur and an active angel investor, he has worked in hands-on roles for several global retailers and consumer brands. He has a keen eye for creative ways to fund growth initiatives and increase profitability. Navjit has built his career as a natural problem solver, having helped some of the retail industry’s biggest brands navigate the changing industry landscape so they can achieve peak operational efficiency, transform their customer experience, and enhance their profitability.

In 2011, Navjit founded Newmine, a technology firm comprised of seasoned retail transformation experts. In 2018, he laid the foundation of the retail industry’s first Applied AI SaaS platform, Chief Returns Officer®, to tackle the most expensive problem in retail, merchandise returns.

Mulhern specializes in research on the economics of marketing, the impact of new media technologies on marketing communications and the measurement of advertising and promotion effects, particularly in retail environments. His research has appeared in numerous scholarly journals, including the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Communications, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Advertising, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Interactive Marketing and Journal of Business Research. He is the co-author of the textbook, “Marketing Communications: Integrated Theory, Strategy and Tactics.”
He has taught numerous courses in Medill’s IMC program, including Marketing Management, IMC Strategic Process, Media Economics and Technology, Database Marketing, and Marketing Research. Furthermore, he conducts executive education and speaks at corporations and universities in the U.S., Europe and Asia. He was previously on the faculty at the Smeal College of Business Administration at Pennsylvania State University.

Martin Block serves as Executive Director of the Retail Analytics Council, an initiative between Medill School, Integrated Marketing Communications department, Northwestern University, and PRI. Block is a Professor in the Integrated Marketing Communications Department. He teaches graduate-level marketing research, sales promotion, advertising, and direct marketing courses.

Prior to joining the Northwestern faculty, Block was a Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Advertising at Michigan State University. Block is a co-author of Media Generations; Analyzing Sales Promotion; and Business-to-Business Market Research. He has published extensively in academic research journals, trade publications, and has written several book chapters. He has been the principal investigator on several federally funded research projects and has served as a consultant to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). He was featured on the NOVA program “We Know Where You Live.”