Scholar
Chara Podimata
Google Scholar ID: YatAkqAAAAAJ
Assistant Professor of OR/Stat, MIT
Citations & Impact
Citations
568
H-index
11
i10-index
11
Publications
20
Co-authors
35
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Amazon Research Award (2023)
- MacArthur Foundation x-grant
- Google Research Scholar Award (2025)
- MIT grant from the GenAI Consortium (MGAIC)
- Microsoft Dissertation Grant during PhD
- Siebel Scholarship during PhD
Research Experience
- Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Statistics at MIT
- Lead Researcher at Archimedes/Athena RC
- Former FODSI Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley
- Summer 2021 intern at Google NYC, hosted by Renato Paes Leme
- Intern at Microsoft Research NYC in summer 2019 (mentored by Jennifer Wortman Vaughan) and spring 2020 (mentored by Alex Slivkins)
- Previously interned at Google in Athens, Greece
Background
- Class of 1942 Career Development Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Statistics at MIT
- Lead Researcher at Archimedes/Athena RC
- Research interests lie at the intersection of Theoretical Computer Science, Economics, and Machine Learning
- Specific focus areas include incentive-aware machine learning, social computing, online learning, and mechanism design
- Recently exploring policy questions related to AI and recommendation systems
