Gupta will teach a new undergraduate course exploring the intersection between education, innovation, and economic opportunity.
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Department of Education
Saloni Gupta
Jonathan M. Nelson Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Education
Room 236
Biography
Saloni Gupta is a Jonathan M. Nelson Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Education. Her research lies at the intersection of education, innovation, and economic development. She studies how education systems can foster innovation, creativity, and adaptive problem-solving—the higher-order skills that drive economic opportunity in a rapidly changing labor market. Her work also examines how new technologies, teaching models, and institutional designs diffuse through education systems, and the conditions under which educational innovations successfully scale.
Before her Ph.D., Saloni wore many hats—she taught in a juvenile home for children rescued from the streets, gained entrepreneurial experience by launching nationwide teacher training programs, worked as a software engineer, and served as a policy consultant to multiple Indian state governments.
Prior to joining Brown, Saloni was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Stanford King Center on Global Development. She holds an M.A. from Stanford University and completed her Ph.D. in Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University in 2024, where she was awarded the NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship in 2023.
Saloni is a visiting researcher at Aalto University, a research collaborator with the Development Innovation Lab at the University of Chicago, and an invited researcher with J-PAL’s Science for Progress Initiative.