• NEWS!
  
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• Excited to start a project with UIPD!
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• Congratulations to Vishnu Narayanan (Postdoc) for joining IIT-Bombay as an Assistant Professor
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• 2025 PhD Thesis Defences: Pooja Kulkarni Aniket Murhekar
• Pooja and Aniket joined Northwestern as postdocs, and next going to U. Chicago and Simons Berkley, respectively.
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• With Aniket and Pooja, organized an INFORMS 2025 session on Data Economies
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• Founding member of the AI Impact Center
• PC Co-chair, EC 2025 Theory Track
• PC Chair, FSTTCS 2025.
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• Sabbatical, 2024-2025:
• Co-organized Dagstuhl Workshop o Fair-division
• Visited TIFR, IIT-Bombay, IISc Banglore (blog post)
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• Recent Invited Talks:
  Workshop@FSTTCS'25,
  ACO Seminar@Georgia Tech 2025,
  Oxford, U. Liverpool 2025,
  IIT-Gandhinagar,
  exSPLORe2025@Ashoka University 2025,
  
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• Journal Associate Editor:
  Mathematics of Operations Research (MOR), Algorithmica
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• Placed on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, Fall 2023.
  
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• Congratulations to Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury (Postdoc) for joining ISE@UIUC as an Assistant Professor
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• Congratulations to Aniket Murhekar for winning the Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship, 2024.
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• Selected Services
  Chair, CS-CARES@UIUC, 2025-present,
  SafeToC Advocate.
  Vice-chair, CS-CARES@UIUC, 2023-2024.
  EC Mentoring Workshop 2022.
  Rising Stars in EECS Workshop 2019.
  AGT Mentoring Workshop 2018.

Awards/Funding

Awards

• Campus Award for Excellence in Guiding Undergraduate Research, 2025.
• College Award for Sustained Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, 2025.
• Placed on the List of Teachers Rated as Excellent by Students, Fall 2023, Fall 2021.
• NSF CAREER Award, 2018.
• Placed on the List of Teachers Rated as Excellent by Students, Spring 2017.
• Simons Berkeley Research Fellow, 2015.
• Outstanding Post-Doctoral Researcher Award 2014, College of Computing, Georgia Tech.
• ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award 2012.
• IIT-Bombay Excellence in Ph.D. Thesis Award 2012.
• Google India Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship 2012.
• IBM Ph.D. Award 2010 (Awarded annually to an Indian PhD student).
• IBM Ph.D. Fellowship (2009 - 2010).

Funding

• AF:RI:Fairness in allocation and machine learning problems: algorithms and solution concepts, 2334461 (Jan 2024 - Dec 2026)
• NSF CAREER 1750436 (2018-2023)
• NSF Student Travel Grant for 2018 AGT Mentoring Workshop, 1833617 (2018-2019).