Avinash Collis

Digital Fellows
For policymaking, we need a dashboard. We already have GDP and productivity. In addition to that, we can measure happiness. We create a dashboard, and we try to focus on looking at this spectrum rather than focusing on one specific number. This would be on my wish list for the future.

Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

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Avinash is an Assistant Professor (promoted to Associate Professor from 2026) at the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a digital fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. He holds a Ph.D. from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Avinash does research on the Economics of Digitization and teach courses related to Information Technology and AI. He is a co-creator of GDP-B, which is a new measure of welfare and growth in the digital economy.

Avinash’s research has been covered in major media outlets and policy reports worldwide, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, the Economist, CNN, BBC, Financial Times, Bloomberg, and NPR, and reports by the US White House, Federal Reserve, Senate, and UK treasury. He has also been invited to present my research at the OECD, European Commission, IMF, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Previously, he was a member of the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (FESAC), which advises the Directors of the Department of Commerce’s statistical agencies, the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau, and the Commissioner of the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.