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Shreyas Sekar

Assistant Professor

University of Toronto Scarborough, Department of Management

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  • Assistant Professor
    University of Toronto Scarborough, Department of Management

BIO

Shreyas Sekar is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the Department of Management, University of Toronto Scarborough, and cross-appointed to the Operations Management and Statistics area at the Rotman School of Management.

His research is centered around data-driven decision making in dynamic and strategic environments, with applications to digital marketplaces. His work draws upon techniques from diverse domains such as optimization, machine learning, revenue management and pricing, and mechanism design to tackle problems at the interface of operations management, online platforms, and data analytics.

Prior to his appointment at the University of Toronto, Shreyas was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Business School and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he was awarded the Robert McNaughton Prize for the best graduate dissertation in CS.

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Postdoctoral Fellow
    Harvard Business School, United States2018 - 2020
  • Postdoctoral Researcher
    University of Washington, United States2017 - 2018

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Research Intern
    Microsoft, United KingdomJan 2016 - May 2016

DEGREES

  • Ph.D., Computer Science
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States2017
  • B.Tech., Electronics and Communication Engineering
    Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India2012

AVAILABILITY

  • Media enquiries

INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

  • Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI)