Research interests

My research focuses on learning and market design in digital marketplaces. I develop algorithms for pricing, ranking, recommendation, and resource allocation, and study how market rules shape participants’ behavior. A recurring question is how to learn from market interactions when participants have their own objectives and may act strategically.

My work addresses these questions in e-commerce, online advertising, and emissions markets, using tools from online learning, optimization, and game theory. Recent projects examine how AI changes market interactions, including automated bidding, recommendations by AI agents, and incentives for creating the human-generated content used to train AI models.

I am affiliated with the MIT Operations Research Center and the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab. Before joining MIT, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Google Research in New York. I have also held visiting research roles at Google and Meta.

News & upcoming events

Selected honors

My honors include the Best OM Paper Award from Operations Research (2025), the ONR Young Investigator Award (2021), and the George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award (2017). Awards & grants →

Selected media

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Selected service

I serve as Department Editor for Revenue Management and Marketplace Design at Naval Research Logistics, and as an Associate Editor for Operations Research and Mathematics of Operations Research. Selected service →

Research group & prospective students

My current PhD students are Alireza Danaei, Yan Dai, Sourav Sahoo, and Rigel Galgana. Suho Shin is my joint postdoc with Amin Saberi at Stanford University.

Prospective PhD students interested in my research are welcome to apply to the MIT Operations Research Center and list my name in their applications. Please contact me after admission. Group members and alumni →

Outside activities

I am the Founder and President of AgentGora, Inc., and an Advisory Board Member at AgoraX. Read my biography →