Kai R. Larsen

Kai R. Larsen is a Professor of Information Systems in the division of Organizational Leadership and Information Analytics, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder. He is a courtesy faculty member in the Department of Information Science of the College of Media, Communication and Information, and a Research Advisor to Gallup. Kai is most known for providing a practical solution to Edward Thorndike's (1904) Jingle Fallacy and for his contributions to the Semantic Theory of Survey Response (STSR), which holds that results of surveys using attitude scales primarily measure the linguistic relationships between survey questions. Kai’s book on Automated Machine Learning was published by Oxford University Press in 2021. He was named as one of the 75 leading Academic Data Leaders of 2022 by CDO Magazine along with some of the world’s best computer scientists, and one of the 50 Best Undergraduate Business Professors of 2023 by Poets and Quants.