Hi,
I am Heetak. 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.
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.
I am working on extending my thesis and on multiple projects relating to neuro-operations management with T T Niranjan. I am also working on looking at the effects of Maximum Retail Price (Price ceiling in India) and on quantifying the benefits of making environment friendly food options the default at events in institutions.
My email address is heetak@stanford.edu.
Broad Research Interests:
Using mathematical modeling (as found in Operations Management and Economics) to study and (hopefully) help solve critical social and environmental challenges. The problems I am most excited to tackle are broadly related to sustainability and agriculture systems.
Behavioral and Neuro-Operations Management.
Benchmarking for Matrix Completion, more specifically, Recommender Systems.
For more details, please look at the Research section of my website.