Research

My broad areas of interest include Algorithmic Game Theory, Optimization, and Machine Learning. I work on designing responsible algorithms spanning a range of problems in intervention planning, multi-agent learning (multi-armed bandit), incentive mechanisms, two-sided markets, etc. and thus far, I have worked on problems arising from real-world scenarios like healthcare, recommendation, resource allocation, online crowd-sourcing, dynamic pricing in transportation, and ride-sharing. More recently, I have been working on projects related to decision-making in energy system decarbonization and resilience. My long-term goal as a researcher is to help provide responsible and resilient decision-support solutions to socially impactful problems.

Prior to joining Rutgers, I was a Research Associate at  Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Before that, I was a CRCS Postdoctoral Fellow at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard University. I earned my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Automation (CSA), Indian Institute of Science (IISc). My dissertation provides algorithms for fair decision-making in three main contexts---resource allocation, recommendation, and classification. I have received the Best Thesis Prize from the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) 2021, Best Thesis Award by the Dept. of CSA, IISc (2020-2021), a Google Ph.D. Fellowship (2016-2020), and a GHCI scholarship (2018). I am extremely grateful to have been recognized as a Rising Star in STOC 2021 and in the Trustworthy ML Seminar Series for my contributions to algorithms for fair decision-making.

Professional Experience:

• Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University (September 2024 - till date)

• Research Associate, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (February 2023 - June 2024)

• CRCS Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (November 2020-2022)

• Visiting Researcher, Google Research (July 2020 to October 2020)

• Research Intern at Microsoft Research Cambridge (April 2019 to July 2019)

• Research Intern at Microsoft Research India (August 2018 to December 2018)

• Research Engineer at Xerox Research Center India (July 2014 to July 2016)