Curriculum Vitae
Academic Positions
Assistant Professor, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University (2023 - present)
Assistant Professor, Mccombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin (2020 - 2023)
Other Appointments
Member, Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee, BEA/ BLS/ Dept. of Commerce/ Census (2023 - present)
Education
Ph.D., Management Science (Information Technology), Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), 2020
M.S. (double degree), Management, University of Mannheim (Germany) & ESSEC Business School (France), 2014
B.Tech. , Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (India), 2011
Awards and Grants
George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School Program on Economics & Privacy research award ($15,000), 2024
Appointed to the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee, 2023
McCombs Faculty Honor Roll for highest-rated faculty in teaching evaluations, 2023
Management Science Distinguished Service Award, 2023
NET institute summer grant ($3,000), with Ananya Sen and Joy Wu, 2022
University of Texas Blockchain Initiative research grant ($15,000), 2022
Good Systems Faculty Fellowship ($4,000), 2022
McCombs research excellence grant ($15,000), 2022
Management Science Meritorious Service Award, 2022
Best paper award at the Workshop on Information Systems and Economics, 2021
Facebook Foundational Integrity Research Award ($100,000), 2021
Research reboot award, UT Austin, 2021
University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition research grant on the Economics of Digital Services ($10,000), 2020
McCombs research excellence grant ($15,000), 2020
INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS) best dissertation award, 2020
Facebook research award: Measuring economic impact in the digital economy ($100,000), with Erik Brynjolfsson, 2020
NET institute summer grant ($3,000), with Ananya Sen and Alex Moehring, 2020
Best thesis award, MIT Sloan School of Management, 2020
Best student paper award (nominee) at the Conference on Information Systems and Technology, 2019
Best student paper award at the Workshop on Information Systems and Economics, 2016
Best paper award (nominee) at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2015
Referee Service
Nature Human Behavior, Management Science, Marketing Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, University of Chicago Law Review, PLOS One, Scientific Reports, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), Strategic Management Society Annual Conference (SMS), European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)
Editorial Service
Associate Editor for International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
Program Committee for Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), Workshop on Platform Analytics
University Service
UT Austin: PhD recruiting committee, Behavioral Lab Committee, Coordinator for department seminar series
Personal Information
Nationality: Indian Citizen (Born in Secunderabad in 1990), US Permanent Resident (Green Card)
Languages: Telugu (Native), English (Fluent), Hindi (Fluent), French (Intermediate), German/ Swiss-German (Basic)
Spouse: Manuela Collis (PhD candidate in Strategic Management at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)