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.
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
Sustainable Consumption: A Strategic Analysis, with Wilfred Amaldoss, Marketing Science, 44(5):1038-1057, 2025.
Full paper available at SSRN
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.
Enhancing Position Auctions in Retail Media (Job Market Paper)
-with Carl F. Mela and Hana Choi.
Regulating Sustainable Products: A Public Policy Perspective
-with Wilfred Amaldoss.