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’m an Assistant Professor of Operations Management with appointments at the Department of Management, University of Toronto Scarborough and the Rotman School of Management. Prior to this, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Business School, affiliated with the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard.
My research focuses on using prescriptive data-analytics and machine learning for revenue management in online platforms. I’m particularly interested in understanding how platforms can strategically leverage information as a tool for revenue management. This has applications in diverse domains such as e-commerce, ride-sharing, and crowdsourcing.
In a previous avatar, I was a Ph.D. student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where I was advised by Elliot Anshelevich. I was awarded the 2017 Robert McNaughton prize for the best graduate dissertation in Computer Science at RPI.
I teach MGOC15 - Introductory Business Analytics - and use Datacamp to complement my 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