King Faculty Fellow. His research interests are in how companies strategize about and derive competitive advantage from their knowledge assets, particularly talent and intellectual property. Somaya has published extensively in such journals as the Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, Advances in Strategic Management, Advances in International Management, and Sloan Management Review. He has won several prizes for best paper at the Strategic Management Science Conference and has been elected to the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their students at Illinois every year since 2011. He holds a PhD in business administration from the University of California at Berkeley, an MBA from the Indian Institute of management at Calcutta, and a bachelors in technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at Bombay.