I am second year PhD student in the MIT Sloan PhD program. I grew up in Pune, India, got a degree in Computer Engineering at the College of Engineering, Pune and an MBA at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. My favourite number is 42.

Research Interests: I do research in platforms, two-sided markets and digitization. Broadly speaking, I am interested in how digital technologies shape market and social outcomes.

Research Project: I am a member of the MIT Mobile Innovation Group where along with Pai-Ling Yin and Jason Davis I am engaged in a long term project that studies mobile appstores and mobile platform competition.

Writing

The Dummies Guide to Building an Ecosystem
April, 2011
An article for the MIT Entrepreneurship Review where I describe tradeoffs faced by the Twitter platform in managing its ecosystem.

Estimating LIML in Matlab
March, 2011
A simple matlab implementation of the Limited Information Maximum Likelihood (LIML) estimator.

Get-Your-Own-Website Guide for MIT Folk [PDF]
August, 2010
A primer on how to host your webpages on Athena at MIT and design a simple webpage (like this one!). No web design and hosting experience necessary.

A Guide to Business PhD Applications [PDF]
May, 2010
A detailed guide to applying to PhD programs in business schools. This document describes if you should consider business PhD programs, life in business school academia and strategies for applying.
(All views expressed here are mine only and have nothing to do with the views of the MIT Sloan PhD program)

A case of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: a note on determining valuable originators in preferential attachment networks
February, 2010
A term paper where we use simulations to show that nodes with high centrality measures are ideal candidates for network origination (with Aseem Sood)

Do Wikipages have parents? An article-level inquiry into Wikipedia's Inequalities [SLIDES]
December, 2009
Workshop on Information Technology Systems (WITS), Phoenix, AZ
Shows that contributions to Wikipedia pages are skewed in a way that one user dominates contribution to any given page (co-authored with P. Seetharaman, A. Dutta and R.Roy).