Shreyas Sekar
Assistant Professor
University of Toronto
Rotman School of Management
UTSC
shreyas.sekar [at] rotman.utoronto [ca]
Affiliations: || EconsCS || LISH || Schwartz Reisman Institute ||
I am an Assistant Professor of Operations at the University of Toronto with appointments at the Rotman School of Management and the Department of Management, University of Toronto Scarborough. I am also a Faculty Affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society.
My research focuses on the design and operation of online platforms, and in particular questions pertaining to revenue management and online recommendations. Much of my recent work is centered around the following broad themes:
- Designing Platforms that are Robust to Online Fraud: How should platform designers guarantee good outcomes for consumers and service providers in the face of manipulation including fake reviews, fraudulent users, click bots, disintermediation, collusion, etc.?
- New Pricing Models for the Digital Economy: What kind of innovative pricing strategies (e.g., subscriptions, revenue sharing, probabilistic selling) can we leverage in online marketplaces?
Prior to joining UofT, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Business School. In a previous life, I received my Ph.D in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where I received the Robert McNoughton award for best graduate dissertation. At RPI, I was fortunate to be advised by Elliot Anshelevich.
I teach undergraduate and Masters level Business Analytics and use Datacamp to complement the classroom experience.
Research Interests
- Revenue Management
- Online Learning
- Data-Driven Optimization
- Market & Mechanism Design
- Information Architecture Design
- Decision Making under Uncertainty
Education & Experience
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Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-2020
Harvard Business School
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Visiting Researcher, 2017-2018
University of Washington
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PhD in Computer Science, 2017
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Research Intern, 2016
Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
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BTech in Electronics and Communication Engr., 2008
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee