Current position:
- Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Department at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.
Email: mehta [AT] rsm [DOT] nl
Previous positions:
- Assistant Professor in the Business Administration Department, Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Research Fellow, The Open Data Institute.
- Research Associate, Indian School of Business.
Education:
- Ph.D. in Management Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2020.
- M.Sc. (Intg.) in Mathematics and Scientific Computing, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2012.
Research
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
- Pay With Your Data: Optimal Data-Sharing Mechanisms for AI Services.
- with Chandrasekhar Manchiraju, Milind Dawande, and Ganesh Janakiraman
- Under 2nd round of revision [Pre-print]
- Hit the GAS: Designing Optimal Generalized Ad-supported Subscription Mechanisms.
- with Dominik Gutt and Martin Quinn
- Can Producers be Testers? A Peer-to-Peer Testing Framework for Milk Cooperatives.
- with Liying Mu, Milind Dawande, and Vijay Mookerjee
Journal Publications
- Robin Hood to the Rescue: Sustainable Revenue-Allocation Schemes for Data Cooperatives.
- with Milind Dawande and Liying Mu
- Production and Operations Management [doi] [Pre-print]
- An Approximation Scheme for Data Monetization.
- with Milind Dawande, Ganesh Janakiraman, and Vijay Mookerjee
- Production and Operations Management [doi] [Pre-print]
- Optimal Scale-Up of HIV Treatment Programs in Resource-Limited Settings Under Supply Uncertainty.
- with Sarang Deo and Charles J. Corbett
- Lead article
- Production and Operations Management [doi] [Pre-print]
- How to Sell a Dataset? Pricing Policies for Data Monetization.
- with Milind Dawande, Ganesh Janakiraman, and Vijay Mookerjee
- Information Systems Research [doi] [Pre-print]
- Appeared in the Proceedings of The 20th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation [doi]
- Sustaining a Good Impression: Mechanisms for Selling Partitioned Impressions at Ad-Exchanges.
- with Milind Dawande, Ganesh Janakiraman, and Vijay Mookerjee
- Information Systems Research [doi] [Pre-print]
Managerial / Policy Articles
- The Hidden Risks of URL-Shortening in Scientific Review.
- Blog @ Communications of the ACM [Link]
- 4 Cybersecurity Insights to Consider While Waiting for Your Next Software Update.
- with Lars Couwenberg
- World Economic Forum [Link]
- Harnessing Digital Federation Platforms and Data Cooperatives to Empower SMEs and Local Small Communities.
- 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.
- Think20 Policy Brief (official engagement group of G20) [Link]
- The Key to Designing Sustainable Data Cooperatives.
- with Milind Dawande and Liying Mu
- World Economic Forum [Link]
- Can Data Cooperatives Sustain Themselves?
- with Milind Dawande and Vijay Mookerjee
- London School of Economics Business Review [Link]
- Pricing Policies for Data Monetization.
- Narrative I/O [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)