Krishnamurthy Iyer

Krishnamurthy Iyer
Associate Professor, Industrial and Systems EngineeringEducation
Krishnamurthy Iyer received his PhD from the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University in 2012, and his B.Tech and M.Tech (dual degree) in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 2006. He spent a year as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Computer and Information Science Department in the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include game theory and stochastic modeling with applications in the design and analysis of online markets and service systems.
Professional Background
Before joining the faculty of University of Minnesota ISyE, Krishnamurthy was an assistant professor in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University.
Scientific & Professional Societies
- INFORMS
- INFORMS Applied Probability Society
- ACM SIGecom
- INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing (RMP) Section
- Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Biography
More information can be found on Prof. Iyer's personal website.
His research interests include game theory and stochastic modeling with applications in the design and analysis of online markets and service systems. His current research focuses on studying optimal mechanisms for information sharing in service systems and platform markets.
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Honors and Awards
- First Place, INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Paper Competition, 2017
- Ralph S. Watts ’72 Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Engineering, Cornell University, 2017
- Dantzig-Lieberman Fellowship (Stanford University) 2011
- Stanford Graduate Fellowship (Office of Technology Licensing Fellow) 2006
- Institute Gold Medal (IIT Bombay) 2006
- Institute Silver Medal (IIT Bombay) 2006
Selected Publications
- A. Gorokh, S. Banerjee, and K. Iyer, The Remarkable Robustness of the Repeated Fisher Market, The Twenty-Second ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC) 2021.
- Y. Zu, K. Iyer, and H. Xu, Learning to Persuade on the Fly: Robustness Against Ignorance, The Twenty-Second ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC) 2021.
- J. Anunrojwong, K. Iyer, and V. Manshadi, Information Design for Congested Social Services: Optimal Need-Based Persuasion, Management Science (forthcoming).
- D. F. Ciocan and K. Iyer, Tractable Equilibria in Sponsored Search with Endogenous Budgets, Operations Research 2021, 69:1, 227-244.
- D. Lingenbrink and K. Iyer, Optimal Signaling Mechanisms in Unobservable Queues, Operations Research 2019, 67:5, 1397--1416. [doi],
- P. Yang, K. Iyer, and P. Frazier, Mean Field Equilibria for Resource Competition in Spatial Settings, Stochastic Systems 2018, 8:4, 265--337. [doi],
- K. Iyer, R. Johari, and M. Sundararajan, Mean Field Equilibria of Dynamic Auctions with Learning, Management Science 2014, 60:12, 2949--2970. [doi],
- K. Iyer, R. Johari, and C. C. Moallemi, Information Aggregation and Allocative Efficiency in Smooth Markets, Management Science 2014, 60:10, 2509--2524. [doi]