Hello, I am Rajeev. I am an assistant professor in the Production & Operations Management Area at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Before joining IIM Bangalore, I had a brief stint as a senior analyst in the Global Data Insights & Analytics group at Ford Motor Company in Chennai. I completed my Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2016 and B.Tech. at Cochin University of Science and Technology in 2011.
Curriculum vitae: pdf version
Articles in journals: European Journal of Operational Research | Operations Research Letters | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
Papers in major conferences: World Congress of the Game Theory Society (GAMES) | International Game Theory Conference at Stony Brook (IGTC) | European Meeting on Game Theory (SING) | Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Conference (MSOM) | East Asia Game Theory Conference (EAGT) | Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development (ACEGD)
Articles in popular press: Economic Times | The Hindu Business Line | Forbes India |
Research interests:
- Cooperative game theory — developing solution concepts for games under externalities and risk
- Operations management — modelling competitive and cooperative strategies using game theory
- Sharing economy and platform markets — pricing, revenue models, and capacity related issues
- Healthcare operations — public health, supply chain issues
Teaching:
- Competition and Cooperation in Business Ecosystems, MBA Elective, Term 6 – 2020, 2019, 2018
- Introduction to Game Theory, Ph.D. Core, Term 4 – 2020
- Cooperative Game Theory and Applications, Ph.D. Elective, Term 4 – 2018, 2017
- Optimization Models for Operations Management, Ph.D. Core, Term 2 – 2018, 2017
Recent updates:
- Published a paper (co-authored with Srikanth Krishnaprasad) in the Journal of the Operational Research Society
- An article in The Hindu Business Line on how Bihar can address the economic concerns of reverse-migration
- An article in the Economic Times CIO on the impact of Covid-19 on the Internet as infrastructure
- Paper accepted for presentation at the 6th World Congress of the Game Theory Society to be held in Budapest, Hungary
- Talk on “game theory in jurisprudence” as part of a panel discussion in the 5th International Conference on Law and Economics held at IIM Bangalore
- Paper presentation at the 30th International Conference on Game Theory at Stony Brook, New York
- Invited talk at the Dynamics of Complex Systems – Discussion Meeting 2019 at ICTS, TIFR Bangalore (video, slides)
- Invited talk at the Workshop on Games on Networks and Queues at IIT Bombay
- Invited talk at the Computer Science-Economics Workshop at Ashoka University
