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Assistant Professor
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at UIUC, with an affiliate appointment in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science. I lead the IDEAL Lab (Incentives, Data, Equilibria, Allocations, and Learning) at UIUC. I have worked extensively on economics of data, equilibrium computation, mechanism design, and theory of fair allocations. I am broadly interested in economics and computation, machine learning, and theoretical computer science.
IDEAL Lab
Incentives, Data, Equilibria, Allocations & Learning
We study foundational questions on data, markets, allocations and learning from the lens of economics and computation.
Research Areas
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Economics of Data
Data markets, pricing, exchange economies, spillover externalities, fairness in collaborative ML.
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Equilibrium Computation & Mechanism Design
Fisher markets, tâtonnement dynamics, LP algorithms, incentives in federated learning.
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Theory of Fair Allocation
EFX existence, rainbow cycle numbers, Nash Social Welfare, envy-free allocation.
PhD Students
Recent News
- 2026 WorkshopOrganizing the Workshop on Foundations of Data Economics at EC 2026 — please attend!
- 2026 PaperTâtonnement Dynamics for Fisher Markets with Chores accepted at STOC 2026.
- 2026 PaperData Pricing via Competitive Equilibrium accepted at WWW 2026 with Jugal Garg, Aniket Murhekar, Jiaxin Song.
- 2025 AwardReceived the NSF CAREER Award on "New Frontiers of Fairness in Allocation and Exchange Problems." 📰 Press
- 2025 PaperCore-Stable Data Exchanges accepted at NeurIPS 2025. Reciprocally Fair Federated Learning at ICML 2025.