Academic Degrees
PhD, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Michigan State University, 2011
MA, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Michigan State University, 2008
BA, Psychology and Spanish, DePaul University, 2005
Biography
Goran Kuljanin serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship in the Driehaus College of Business at DePaul University. He primarily teaches courses on business and people analytics. His courses cover topics such as data visualization, analytical notebooks, unsupervised and supervised learning, natural language processing, web scraping, time series forecasting, business process analytics, and organizational network analysis.
Professor Kuljanin’s research focuses on developing computational process models of human functioning and workplace operations to enable process-oriented, strategic decision-making on human resources management. He has published his research in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Leadership Quarterly, Organizational Research Methods, and Psychological Methods. His research awards include Best Article in Organizational Research Methods in 2013, the 2015 William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award from the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and a Monograph Distinction from the Journal of Applied Psychology. As a co-investigator, he has won grants from the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.
Professor Kuljanin’s consulting work focuses on analyzing data on any organization’s most important resource: its people. Specifically, his consulting work involves applying advanced analytics (e.g., machine learning, dynamical modeling, organizational network analysis, natural language processing, computational modeling) on employee, team, organizational, and client data to develop effective work strategies to meet organizational objectives.