Zicklin Faculty Report on Off-Campus Research Projects
July 28, 2025Several Zicklin faculty members on academic leave recently returned from completing fellowships that gave them a break from teaching responsibilities while they took a deep dive into their own research. They spoke to Zicklin News about their projects.
Jain, Kaminer, Kumar (left to right)
Aditya Jain (associate professor, Narendra Paul Loomba Department of Management): “I partnered with a generative-AI startup to explore how these models can support enterprise workflows. I learned about the capabilities of large language models and how their use must be appropriately scaffolded to reduce problems such as hallucinations. I hope to use this understanding to develop new research projects and courses.”
Debbie Kaminer (professor, Department of Law): “I spent a semester doing research for an article on religious accommodation in the workplace. I looked at the 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Groff v. DeJoy, which increases an employee’s right to religious accommodation at work, to ask what this decision means for a religious employee’s co-workers. I’m currently writing up my analysis in a sole-authored, 50-page article that I will submit to top law journals.”
Nanda Kumar (professor and chair, Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics): “I just returned from a six-month fellowship at Spain’s University of the Basque Country, where I was studying how universities undertake digital transformation, with a specific focus on how they use artificial intelligence.”