SHIVIKA NARANG, PhD

(she/her/hers)

Email : shivika@iisc.ac.in 

My name is Shivika Narang (pronounced Shi-vi-kaa Naa-rung) and I am an incoming postdoc at MSRI/SLMath for the Algorithms, Fairness and Equity program. I have recently concluded my time as a PhD student, and recipient of the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Research Scholarship at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, where I was a member of the Game Theory Lab. I was advised by Prof Y Narahari.  I am broadly interested in Algorithmic Game Theory and Approximation Algorithms.  My current work is focused on fairness in matchings and allocations. 

I completed my M Tech (Research) from CSA, IISc, under Prof Y Narahari, in July 2018, with a thesis titled "Design of Trusted Market Platforms using Permissioned Blockchains and Game Theory". 

I worked as a summer intern at IBM Research, Bangalore during May-July 2017. 

I was a recipient of the Summer Research Fellowship at CSE, IIT Madras in 2015.

News

June 2023: Successfully defended my PhD thesis.

April 2023: Started a 3 month visit with Dr Rohit Vaish at IIT Delhi

March 2023: I have submitted my PhD thesis

February 2023: I gave my PhD Colloquium, a necessary step before submitting my thesis 

July 2022: I'll be spending the coming August-December semester at Penn State working with Dr Hadi Hosseini and his group

April 2022: I won Best Student Presentation for the AI/ML cluster at EECS Research Symposium!