About me

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Current position:

Assistant Professor (with tenure) 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

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

3. Pay With Your Data: Optimal Data-Sharing Mechanisms for AI Services.

with Chandrasekhar Manchiraju, Milind Dawande, and Ganesh Janakiraman [Pre-print]
under 2nd round of revision
2. Hit the GAS: Designing Optimal Generalized Ad-supported Subscription Mechanisms.

with Dominik Gutt and Martin Quinn [Pre-print]
under 1st round of review
Nominated for best paper award at Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE) 2024.
1. Can Producers be Testers? A Peer-to-Peer Testing Framework for Milk Cooperatives.

with Liying Mu, Milind Dawande, and Vijay Mookerjee

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'24

+ 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]

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]