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Dr. Ravi Kant Rai | Vidyashilp University Faculty

Dr. Ravi Kant Rai

Assistant Professor,
School of Computational and Data Sciences
Former Post Doctoral Research Associate at
the University of Liverpool
Former Assistant Professor fixed term at Kyushu University
Ph.D. IIT Bombay
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Biography
Professional Education
Teaching Courses
Research Interests
Selected Publications
Biography

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.
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