Soumyajit (Rick) Pyne

I am a second-year PhD student at the School of Technology and Computer Science (STCS), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. I am currently pursuing my research under Prof. Umang Bhaskar. Before starting my PhD, I also earned an MS in Computer Science from STCS, TIFR under the supervision of Prof. Umang Bhaskar.

Before joining TIFR, I completed my Bachelor's in Computer Science at Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math in 2021.

My research interests lie in Fair Division, Voting Theory, Contract Theory, and anything related to Algorithmic Game Theory.

I am also a self-taught fingerstyle guitarist with a YouTube channel with over 3,30,000 subscribers and 27 million views.

Here is my CV.

Publications

Joint work with Umang Bhaskar

Joint work with Umang Bhaskar

Joint work with Siddharth Barman, Umang Bhaskar and Yeshwanth Pandit

Attended AAAI 2025 conference (awarded travel grant from AAAI).
Attended Advanced Course on the Foundations of Computer Science, 2024 at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (awarded travel grant from the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik).
Attended FSTTCS 2024 conference.
Attended Algorithm Frontiers of Fairness workshop at FSTTCS 2023 conference.
Attended FSTTCS 2023 conference.
Attended Summer School On Computational Social Choice, 2023 at the University of Amsterdam (awarded travel grant from the University of Amsterdam).

Sub reviewer for EC2024.
Came 3rd in the 1st Computational Social Choice Competition held in IJCAI 2023 conference.
Secured 1st rank in Bachelor of Science(Gold Medal).
Facilitator at Math Circle India Session 12 arranged by ICTS (2022).
Four Star coder at CodeChef.
Appeared in ICPC regionals (2021).

I am a fingerstyle guitarist with a YouTube channel that has over 3,30,000 subscribers.
I was a judge in Infotainment (a musical competition) arranged by NIT Trichy.
Showcased by the Talented Indian webpage.
Guest Artist at Avian guitars.

The most viewed video on my channel