Sriram Sankaranarayanan

Sriram Sankaranarayanan serves as an Assistant Professor in the Production and Quantitative Methods area at IIM Ahmedabad, where he also co-chairs the Brij Disa Centre for Data Science and AI. His academic journey includes a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University under the guidance of Prof. Sauleh Siddiqui and Prof. Amitabh Basu, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at Polytechnique Montréal's Canada Excellence Research Chair in Data Science. His research focuses on complex game-theoretic and optimization problems, particularly in mixed-integer linear programming and bilevel programming, with applications in energy market policies and climate change initiatives. Before academia, he gained practical experience at Deutsche Bank, developing models for Credit Default Swaps and Swaptions trading. His contributions to the field were recently recognized with the Vidya Varidhi Educational Foundation Outstanding Researcher of the Year Award at IIM Ahmedabad in March 2024