I am Heetak Shah. Thanks for visiting my website. 

I am currently a predoctoral Research Fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where I work for Prof. Modibo Camara on Bounded Rationality in Recommender Systems and Prof. Dan Iancu on Targeting for Pandemic Response.

I am broadly interested in using Microeconomic modeling and Operations Research methods to solve social issues. I am also interested in looking at social problems from a behavioral economics lens. The issue I am most passionate about is sustainability in livestock agriculture and livestock welfare.

Previously, I graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, where I pursued a BTech in Engineering Physics and an MTech in Operations Research. During my undergrad, I worked as a research assistant for Prof. T. T. Niranjan on behavioral operations management projects at the SJM School of Management, IIT Bombay. In my master's thesis, I looked at crop subsidy programs in India through a game theoretic model. I was very fortunate to be advised by Prof. K. S. Mallikarjuna Rao and Prof. Omkar D. Palsule-Desai for my thesis.

In the summer of 2023, I was a research intern at École de Technologie Supérieure Montreal, where I worked on optimization problems in the construction sector. This research internship was made possible by the Mitacs Globalink Research Internship program. 

My email address is heetak@stanford.edu.