madhav kumar

i’m a postdoc at mit. i solve core marketing problems such as pricing, targeting, and recommendations for online marketplaces.

i completed my ph.d. in quantitative marketing from mit in 2022 where i was fortunate to work under the supervision of prof. sinan aral, prof. dean eckles, and prof. john hauser. my dissertation won the msi alden g. clayton award, the mit sloan doctoral forum award, and was a finalist in at the asa statistics in marketing doctoral research award.

in my past life, i was a management consultant and a researcher at the reserve bank of india. i have a bachelors (honors) in physics and a masters in economics.

i love corgis, small confidence intervals, and long aimless walks.