Hi, I'm Viraj, a PhD student at Princeton University where I work on financial market design in Decentralized Finance, with Prof. Pramod Viswanath. 

Research Interests - decentralized finance, control theory, machine learning, dynamic market design

My research can be found on Google Scholar or on this page or (hopefully) listed in my CV.  I have worked on adaptive DeFi protocols, renewable energy markets, and prediction markets.

The main philosophy driving my research is that careful market design is a key to human flourishing. What makes this problem difficult is knowing when to respect the bottom up nature of human society, and when to recognize market failures that prompt rules-based, rare corrective actions from a market designer. I believe that striking this balance involves decentralized and adaptive market design, that takes the incentives of the participants into account.

Previous affiliations - For my MS, I worked on neural decoders for error-correcting codes, at the Co-ordinated Science Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before that, I worked as a risk analyst for Goldman- Sachs for a year after graduating from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay majoring in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Computer Science. If you are interested to know more random things about me (can't imagine why) click here for my detailed background. As if all this self-centredness is not enough, here is a podcast about me by two AIs.