I am a PhD candidate in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University since 2021 advised by Prof. Francesca Parise. I study games played on large networks, including settings such as opinion formation in social networks, pricing of products in a networked market, etc. I am particularly interested in studying equilibrium outcomes and dynamics of learning algorithms in such games, and their relation to the network structure

Before my PhD, I completed my Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras in 2020 advised by Prof. Rachel Kalpana Kalaimani, and my Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), Mumbai in 2016. 

Broadly, my goal is to explore emergent behavior arising in complex systems such as social networks, networked markets and biological networks, and provide novel insights and theoretical guarantees about such behavior using mathematical tools such as game theory, networks, dynamical systems and control, and optimization theory. 

I am looking for a postdoctoral position starting in 2026. 

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Email: kvr36@cornell.edu