I am a doctoral student in the Communications and Networking Commnet Lab within the ECE Department at Northwestern University. I am advised by Prof. Dr. Randall Berry My research broadly focuses on qualitative analyses of multi-agent learning and decision-making problems that arise from social interactions (eg. recommendation-based markets, ad platforms, online retail), using tools such as stochastic modeling, Bayesian learning, game theory and mechanism design.

In particular, I have worked on understanding the effects of different social factors (eg. fake actions, ex-ante-biases, tie-breaking rules, mean-field interactions) on information cascades in sequential observational learning settings.

Prior to joining Northwestern, I obtained my M.S. (by Research) in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Krishna Jagannathan and Prof. Dr. Sharayu Moharir (IIT Bombay). There, my research focussed on the design and analysis of novel caching policies for CDNs, that aim to optimize cache performance under freshness constraints imposed by delay sensitive applications.

Research Interests

• Sequential Multi-agent Learning
• Stochastic modeling
• Game theory and Network Economics
• Reinforcement Learning

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering - Ongoing
  • Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
• M.S. (by Research) in Electrical Engineering - 2018
  • Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.
• B.E. in Electronics Engineering - 2014
  • University of Mumbai