Before joining Vidyashilp University, Dr. Ravi Kant Rai was a Post Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. He has his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research department from IIT Bombay. He also held previous positions as a Postdoc and then as a fixed-term Assistant Professor at Kyushu University, Japan. He has published his research in journals and also serves as a Program Committee member of reputed conferences. His research interest lies around Game Theory and Mechanism Design. He is particularly interested in Combinatorial Game theory, and various bidding variants of several Combinatorial games.
Professional Education
Ph.D (IIT Bombay); Domain: Operations Research | 2021 |
M.Sc. (IIT Bombay); Domain: Operations Research | 2015 |
B.Sc. (BHU Varanasi); Domain: Statistics | 2012 |
Teaching Courses
- Research Methodology
- Probabilistic Graph Models
Research Interests
- Game Theory
- Combinatorial Game Theory
- Mechanism Design
Selected Publications
- Bidding Combinatorial Games, with Urban Larsson, Prem Kant and Akshay; Electronic Journal of Combinatorics.
- Discrete Richman Bidding Scoring Games, with Urban Larsson and Nel Patel; International Journal of Game Theory.
- Constructive comparison in Bidding Combinatorial Games, with Urban Larsson, Prem Kant and Akshay; International Journal of Game Theory.
Before joining Vidyashilp University, Dr. Ravi Kant Rai was a Post Doctoral Research
Associate at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. He has his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and
Operations Research department from IIT Bombay. He also held previous positions as a Postdoc and
then as a fixed-term Assistant Professor at Kyushu University, Japan. He has published his research in
journals and also serves as a Program Committee member of reputed conferences. His research interest
lies around Game Theory and Mechanism Design. He is particularly interested in Combinatorial Game
theory, and various bidding variants of several Combinatorial games.
Ph.D (IIT Bombay); Domain: Operations Research | 2021 |
M.Sc. (IIT Bombay); Domain: Operations Research | 2015 |
B.Sc. (BHU Varanasi); Domain: Statistics | 2012 |
- Research Methodology
- Probabilistic Graph Models
- Game Theory
- Combinatorial Game Theory
- Mechanism Design
- Bidding Combinatorial Games, with Urban Larsson, Prem Kant and Akshay; Electronic Journal of Combinatorics.
- Discrete Richman Bidding Scoring Games, with Urban Larsson and Nel Patel; International Journal of Game Theory.
- Constructive comparison in Bidding Combinatorial Games, with Urban Larsson, Prem Kant and Akshay; International Journal of Game Theory.