Profile

Dr. Devavrat Shah is a professor at MIT affiliated with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), and the Operations Research Center (ORC). He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. His research focuses on large-scale networks and inference, including stochastic networks, network algorithms, and network information theory. Over the years, Dr. Shah has received several prestigious accolades, such as the President of India Gold Medal, the INFORMS George B. Dantzig Best Dissertation Award, the ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Award, and the Erlang Prize from INFORMS. He was also honored as a Distinguished Young Alumnus by IIT Bombay. A serial innovator, Dr. Shah co-founded Celect, Inc., which was acquired by Nike in 2019, and later co-founded Ikigai Labs to support data-driven decision-making in businesses.