Rate My Professor Santhi Hejeebu

Santhi Hejeebu is Professor and Co-chair of the Department of Economics and Business at Cornell College, a position she has held since 2020. She joined Cornell College in 2004 as Assistant Professor, advancing to Associate Professor (2010–2017, serving as Chair from 2011–2014), Ringer Distinguished Professor (2017–2020), and her current role. In these capacities, she teaches courses in business analytics including data visualization, social analytics, predictive modeling, and optimization; microeconomics; economics of organizations; markets and social networks; and US economic and business history. Prior appointments include Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Iowa (2000–2004), Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Iowa (Spring 2002), Lecturer in the Departments of Economics and South Asia Regional Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (Spring 2000), Visiting Scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (1999), and Assistant Director/Research Economist at the Center for Business and Economic Studies, University of Baltimore (1990–1992). Hejeebu holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Iowa (1998), a B.A. in Economics magna cum laude from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (1989), and an Analytics for Data Science Certificate from The Institute for Statistics Education (2020).