About me

I am an Associate Professor at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. I currently serve as an Associate Editor at Information Systems Research.

My research investigates the governance challenges and strategic dynamics that shape modern data markets. I use quantitative methods such as mechanism design, optimization, and cooperative and non-cooperative game theory to study the operational and economic questions that emerge in this domain.

Previously, I was an Assistant Professor at the Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I received my Ph.D. in Management Science from The University of Texas at Dallas and my M.Sc. (Integrated) in Mathematics and Scientific Computing from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

Email: mehta [AT] rsm [DOT] nl

Research

Google Scholar profile

Grants

• Veni Grant from Dutch Research Council (NWO), € 320,000, 2025-27
  Title: Empowering Individuals in the Digital Economy: A Bottom-Up Approach to Designing an Ethical, Privacy-Preserving, and Viable Data Ecosystem
  Role: Principal Investigator
• Market Organization of the Dutch Energy System in 2050 from NWO, € 4.28 million, 2025-29
  Role: Co-Applicant
• Starter Grant, Erasmus University, € 300,000, 2025-27
  Role: Principal Investigator

Working Papers / Work in Progress

• 3. Pay With Your Data: Optimal Data-Sharing Mechanisms for AI Services.
  with Chandrasekhar Manchiraju, Milind Dawande, and Ganesh Janakiraman [Pre-print]
  revising for 2nd round of review
• 2. Hit the GAS: Designing Optimal Generalized Ad-supported Subscription Mechanisms.
  with Dominik Gutt and Martin Quinn [Pre-print]
  revising for 2nd round of review
  Nominated for best paper award at WISE 2024.
• 1. Exchangeability as the Exact Condition for Shapley Symmetry.
  [Pre-print]
  under 1st round of review
  

Journal Publications

• 5. Robin Hood to the Rescue: Sustainable Revenue-Allocation Schemes for Data Cooperatives.   POM
  + with Milind Dawande and Liying Mu
  + [doi] [Pre-print]
• 4. An Approximation Scheme for Data Monetization.   POM
  + with Milind Dawande, Ganesh Janakiraman, and Vijay Mookerjee
  + [doi] [Pre-print]
• 3. Optimal Scale-Up of HIV Treatment Programs in Resource-Limited Settings Under Supply Uncertainty.   POM
  + with Sarang Deo and Charles J. Corbett
  + Lead article
  + [doi] [Pre-print]
• 2. How to Sell a Dataset? Pricing Policies for Data Monetization.   ISR, EC'19
  + with Milind Dawande, Ganesh Janakiraman, and Vijay Mookerjee
  + [doi] [Pre-print]
  + Appeared in the Proceedings of The 20th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation [doi]
• 1. Sustaining a Good Impression: Mechanisms for Selling Partitioned Impressions at Ad-Exchanges.   ISR
  + with Milind Dawande, Ganesh Janakiraman, and Vijay Mookerjee
  + [doi] [Pre-print]

Managerial / Policy Articles

• 6. The Hidden Risks of URL-Shortening in Scientific Review.   Blog @ Communications of the ACM
  + [Link]
• 5. 4 Cybersecurity Insights to Consider While Waiting for Your Next Software Update.   World Economic Forum
  + with Lars Couwenberg
  + [Link]
• 4. Harnessing Digital Federation Platforms and Data Cooperatives to Empower SMEs and Local Small Communities.   Think20 Policy Brief
  + with Michael Bühler, Igor Calzada, Isabel Cane, Thorsten Jelinek, Astha Kapoor, Morshed Mannan, Vijay Mookerjee, Konrad Nübel, Alex Pentland, Trebor Scholz, Divya Siddarth, Julian Tait, Bapu Vaitla, and Jianguo Zhu.
  + [Link]
• 3. The Key to Designing Sustainable Data Cooperatives.   World Economic Forum
  + with Milind Dawande and Liying Mu
  + [Link]
• 2. Can Data Cooperatives Sustain Themselves?   LSE Business Review
  + with Milind Dawande and Vijay Mookerjee
  + [Link]
• 1. Pricing Policies for Data Monetization.   Narrative
  + [Link]

Teaching

• @Erasmus University
  • Big Data Management and Analytics (masters)
  • Data Privacy and Cybersecurity (masters)
  • Business Analytics for International Managers (masters)
  • Digital Analytics and Customer Insights (executive)
  • Data Modelling & Analytics (bachelors)
• @University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Social Media Strategy (bachelors)
• @University of Texas at Dallas
  • Introduction to Programming (bachelors)

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