I am a predoctoral research fellow in Economics and Operations, Information, and Technology at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Previously, I graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay with a Bachelors in Engineering Physics and Masters in Operations Research.
Research
As a predoc, I work with Modibo Camara on understanding and evaluating methods to elicit preferences (related to his paper on Eliciting Informed Preferences) and on the welfare impact of the metrics used for evaluating recommender systems, and for Dan Iancu and Omer Karaduman on understanding cannibalization of customers when a firm opens a new store near an existing store. I also worked as a predoc for Dan Iancu on Optimized Targeted Confinements for Future Pandemic Response in my first year as a predoc.
My master’s thesis was on Crop Subsidy Schemes and Deliberate Degradation, advised by K. S. Mallikarjuna Rao and Omkar D Palsule Desai. In my thesis, I showed that direct subsidies strictly dominate procurement schemes by eliminating the strategic incentive for farmers to degrade crop quality — a mechanism rooted in how procurement payments are conditioned on weight subject to a minimum quality standard.
I also had the pleasure of working as a research assistant for, and later with, Prof. T. T. Niranjan while at IIT Bombay on multiple projects in Behavioral Operations Management. I was a research assistant on Unpacking the cognitive processes of the boundedly rational newsvendor. We are currently working on understanding the managerial behavior that gives rise to the “Bullwhip effect”, and on a project on decomposed newsvendor decision-making (building on the paper I was a research assistant on).
Work in Progress
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To Have and Not to Hold: A Note on Supply Line Underweighting — with T. T. Niranjan and Enno Siemsen
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Decomposed Newsvendor Decision Making: Insights from Eye Tracking Experiments — with T. T. Niranjan, Kristian Rotaru, and Narendra Ghosalya
About Me
I am a vegan for the animals.
My primary hobby is backpacking combined with public transit. I love reaching trailheads via public transport: I already completed four Amtrak-based backpacking trips to Yosemite and I spent a winter escaping the North American cold in New Zealand, where I went backpacking (in nature) for a whole month using only publicly available transit across the whole south island.
When I’m not outdoors, I’m usually reading wikipedia, watching European football, catching a drama or comedy TV series, or reading a book—all while maintaining a classic love-hate relationship with long distance running.