Research     Teaching

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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.

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Working Papers / Work in Progress

1. 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]
2. Can Producers be Testers? A Peer-to-Peer Testing Framework for Milk Cooperatives.
   • with Liying Mu, Milind Dawande, and Vijay Mookerjee

Journal Publications

1. 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]
2. An Approximation Scheme for Data Monetization.
   • with Milind Dawande, Ganesh Janakiraman, and Vijay Mookerjee
   • Production and Operations Management [doi] [Pre-print]
3. 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]
4. 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]
5. 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

1. 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]
2. The Key to Designing Sustainable Data Cooperatives.
   • with Milind Dawande and Liying Mu
   • World Economic Forum [Link]
3. Can Data Cooperatives Sustain Themselves?
   • with Milind Dawande and Vijay Mookerjee
   • London School of Economics Business Review [Link]
4. Pricing Policies for Data Monetization.
   • Narrative I/O [Link]

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@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)