Curriculum Vitae
Current Positions
Assistant Professor, Mccombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin (2020 - present)
Digital Fellow, Stanford Digital Economy Lab, Stanford University (2020 - present)
Digital Fellow, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (2020 - 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
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
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
DuWayne J. Peterson, Jr. doctoral fellowship at MIT Sloan, 2014-19
Eiffel Scholarship from the French Ministry of External Affairs to pursue graduate studies in France, 2011-13
National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) scholarship, Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) fellowship and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) merit scholarship, 2005-11
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)