Siddharth Prusty

Siddharth Prusty

PhD Student, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

Biography

I am completing my PhD in Quantitative Marketing at Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. My research focuses on exploring strategic questions in the domain of digital marketing and sustainability.

In my dissertation paper, I seek to improve the design of position auctions in retail media, that is used to allocate and price ads. Using impression-level data obtained from an online retail platform, I develop an approach to simultaneously improve platform profits and advertiser surplus over status quo position auction mechanisms. In another stream of research, I study the market for sustainable products, showing how consumers' heterogeneous preferences for sustainability could produce counter-intuitive insights regarding prices, profits and consumer surplus. A subsequent paper considers regulation of sustainable products.

My research has been published at Marketing Science and the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research.

Interests
  • Retail Media
  • Ad Auctions
  • Mechanism Design
  • Sustainability
  • Regulation
Education
  • PhD in Quantitative Marketing, 2026

    Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

  • MS in Operations Research, 2020

    IEOR Department, Columbia University

  • B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, 2016

    Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Publications

  1. Sustainable Consumption: A Strategic Analysis, with Wilfred Amaldoss, Marketing Science, 44(5):1038-1057, 2025.

    Full paper available at SSRN

  2. Robust Importance Weighting for Covariate Shift, with Henry Lam & Fengpei Li, Proceedings of the Twenty Third International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, PMLR 108:352-362, 2020.

Working Papers

Works in Progress

  • Regulating Sustainable Products: A Public Policy Perspective

    -with Wilfred Amaldoss.

Teaching Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Instructor, Statistical Programming
Python Summer Bootcamp
Aug 14, 2023 – Aug 18, 2023 Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
 
 
 
 
 
Teaching Assistant (Duke University)
Value Creation in Martech (2021/2023 for Carl Mela), Programming Analytics (2023 for Allison Chaney), Strategic Brand Management (2022/2023 for Tong Guo), Marketing Core (2022 for Srinivas Tunuguntla)
Sep 1, 2021 – May 30, 2026 Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
 
 
 
 
 
Teaching Assistant (Columbia University)
Stochastic Models & Applications (2020 for Ton Dieker), Introduction to Financial Engineering (2019/2020 for David Yao)
Sep 1, 2019 – Dec 15, 2020 IEOR Department, Columbia University

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