​Poruz Khambatta is a PhD candidate in Organizational Behavior at Stanford University. He uses tools from psychology and artificial intelligence to shed light on how people form and manage first impressions.

His research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General and been featured on CNN, ABC, FOX, and NPR.