Hi, I'm Umang Bhaskar. I am a faculty member in the School of Technology and Computer Science at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.

My primary research is on algorithmic game theory, the study of computational problems that arise when multiple rational agents interact, each trying to optimize its own objective. I'm further interested in problems in combinatorial optimization, especially online and approximation algorithms.

Before joining TIFR, I was:

• a postdoctoral scholar at UWaterloo and Caltech;
• a PhD student at Dartmouth College;
• an MTech student at IIT, Bombay; and
• an undergrad at NIT, Allahabad

Somewhere in between, I worked for two years with Tata Consultancy Services.

I co-organised a Workshop on Complexity in Algorithmic Game Theory on December 10th, 2019, at IIT Bombay prior to FSTTCS 2019, with Siddharth Barman. It was a great program, thanks to all the attendees and speakers! Check the website for talk slides.

In memoriam: Phani Raj Lolakapuri

If your research interests are aligned with mine, send me an email with details. I may not respond if this is not the case.

My interests include photography, hiking, traveling to new countries and places, playing chess, board games, reading and (very occasionally) writing.