The common thread in my current research is to apply game theory, mechanism design, and artificial intelligence techniques to research problems at the interface of computer science and economics. In particular, I am interested in auctions and markets, cooperative game theory, computational social choice, machine learning, and data analytics. I am also exploring the application of these to digital agriculture and public health problems. I teach courses on (1) Game Theory and (2) Artificial Intelligence for Social Good. Please click below for some recent research and innovation snippets.
narahari[at]iisc[dot]ac[dot]in | Phone: +91 80 22932773, 22932368
I have been at the Indian Institute of Science since August 1979, as a B.E. Student (Department of ECE) (1979-82), M.E. Student (School of Automation) (1982-84), and Doctoral Student (Department of CSA) (1984-87). During February 1988 – July 31, 2024, I was on the faculty of the Department of CSA. I am currently an Honorary Professor. I was Chair of the Department during December 2009 – July 2014. I was the Dean, Division of EECS (Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Sciences) at IISc from August 2014 till July 2021. I was chairing the Office of DIGITS (Digital Campus and Informational Technology Services) during January 2016-December 2020. During June 1, 2022 till December 31 2023, I officiated as Director, Centre for Brain Research.
During 1992, I was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA and during 1997, I was a Visiting Scientist on sabbatical at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersberg, Maryland, USA.
I am an elected fellow of: IEEE, New York (FIEEE); Indian National Science Academy (FNA), New Delhi; Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc), Bangalore; Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE), New Delhi; and the National Academy of Sciences (FNASc), Allahabad. I am a recipient of the J.C. Bose National Fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. In 2009, I received the IISc Alumni Award for Research Excellence in Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science.
I have authored or co-authored three books: Game Theory and Mechanism Design (IISc Press and World Scientific) (2014); Game Theoretic Problems in Network Economics and Mechanism Design Solutions (2009) (Springer Monograph); and Performance Modeling of Automated Manufacturing Systems (Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs) (1992).
My work has been driven by talented and brilliant students: 28 of them have completed Ph.D. while one Ph.D. student has submitted his thesis; 18 have completed Master’s by Research; more than 100 have completed M.Tech. projects. Currently, 5 M.Tech. students are carrying out their project work in my group.
I am fortunate to have been an alumnus of the Government Primary School, Kosgi (Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh) during 1964-69; the Mahatma Gandhi Municipal High School, Hindupur (Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh) during 1969-74; the A.E.S. National College, Gauribidanur (Chickaballapur District, Karnataka) during 1974-79 (Pre-University and B.Sc. Courses), and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (B.E., M.E., and Ph.D.) during 1979-87. Professor N. Viswanadham was my research advisor during M.E. and Ph.D.
September 26, 2024: Selected for the Sir M. Visvesvaraya Life Time Achievement award for Senior Scientists from the Government of Karnataka.
Announcement on IISc Website: https://iisc.ac.in/events/professor-yadati-narahari-has-been-honoured-with-the-sir-m-visvesvaraya-life-time-achievement-award-for-senior-scientists-engineers/
Videos from the Awards Ceremony:
September 14, 2024: Ms. Madhura Shanbag, second year M.Tech. (CSE) project student, is selected for Prof. S.N. Rao Endowment Award
September 1, 2024: Game Theory lab launches Youtube Channel :
www.youtube.com/@GameTheoryLab-CSA-IISc
July 27, 2024: Amal Roy successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis entitled Mean Field Based Investigations for Inducing Socially Optimal Epidemic Behavior from Rational Individuals
July 19, 2024: A Peek into the GAME-ARTS symposium (5 minute Video):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S3sAIApnmrINeP8wFRPfVuVe2LlIqV9V/view?usp=sharing
July 19, 2024: A peek into the coffee table book “65 Notout” brought out by the students of the Game Theory lab
https://heyzine.com/flip-book/0c0d85d3e7.html#page/1
July 17, 2024: 12 Minute Video on how the Game Theory Lab has evolved over the past three decades:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vMMHa0zgEZgrwDFXXDqdkY7O3K8_TPTK/view?usp=sharing
July 12, 2024: The IISc-BEL Collaborative Project (PROMISE: Procurement Mechanism for Agricultural Inputs and Services) was selected for a Technology Excellence Award at the India AI Summit in Bengaluru hosted by K-TECH Karnataka and Startup Karnataka.
GAME-ARTS: The Game Theory Lab is proud to organize a three day technical event Game Theory, Mechanism Design, and Artificial Intelligence Symposium on July 17-19, 2024 in the A.V. Rama Rao Auditorium, Chemical Sciences Building, IISc Campus. For more details, https://gtl.csa.iisc.ac.in/gamearts
May 19, 2024: Congratulations to Amal Roy for submitting his Ph.D. Thesis entitled Mean Field Investigations for Inducing Socially Optimal Epidemic Behavior in Rational Individuals. He earlier delivered his Ph.D. Colloquium on May 15, 2024.
May 16, 2024: Congratulations to Vishakha Patil for successfully defending her Ph.D. Thesis entitled Exploring Fairness and Causality in Online Decision-Making
April 2024: NABARD publishes the findings of our R&D Project with them:
https://www.nabard.org/auth/
February 27, 2024: Dr. Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of Science and Technology (Independent Charge), Government of India, formally announced the success of the GenomeIndia initiative in the DBT Headquarters, New Delhi.
January 2024: I chaired a committee of IISc faculty members entrusted with formulating suitable guidelines for education and research in the wake of emergence of powerful AI tools including Generative AI tools. Click here for the final report submitted by the committee and illustrative slides: ttps://www.iisc.ac.in/events/
Dec 22, 2023: Congratulations to Gogulapati Sreedurga for defending her Ph.D. Thesis entitled Exploring Fairness and welfare Maximization in Participatory Budgeting.
Dec 4, 2023: Congratulations to Vishakha Patil on submitting her Ph.D. Thesis entitled Exploring Fairness and Causality in Online Decision-Making.
Nov 17, 2023: Congratulations to Vishakha Patil on presenting her Ph.D. colloquium on her thesis Exploring Fairness and Causality in Online Decision-Making.
October 2023: Congratulations to Anand Krishna for defending his Ph.D. Thesis “Algorithms for Individual and Collective Measures of Fairness” on October 18, 2023.
October 2023: Congratulations to Mayank Ratan Bhardwaj for defending his Ph.D. Thesis “Novel Algorithms for Improving Agricultural Planning and Operations using Artificial Intelligence and Game Theory” on October 17, 2023.
September 2023: Congratulations to Vishakha Patil for selection and participation in the 10th Heidelberg Laureates Forum.
September 2023: Congratulations to Jaydeep Pawar Vasudev for being awarded Br. C. Selvam Endowment Award – 2023 to recognize the best M.Tech. Project among M.Tech. [CSE] students of 2021-2023 Batch for his project entitled Using Geospatial Information and Improved Deep Learning Methods for Crop Price Prediction.
Aug – Dec 2023: Co-teaching, with Prof. Viraj Kumar, the course UE 101: Algorithms and Programming for the undergraduate students (B.Tech. in Mathematics and Computing as well as B.Sc. (Research) students)
August 2023: Congratulations to Shivika Narang for joining as a Postdoc Fellow at the Simon Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute, Berkeley, SLMath for the Algorithms, Fairness, and Equity program, August 2023
July 2023: The Sixteenth International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM-2023) was held in the J.N. Tata Auditorium, IISc Campus, during July 11-14, 2023. THis is the first time this flagship conference in education technologies is being held in India. Click here for details and proceedings.
July 2023: Congratulations to Mayank Ratan Bhardwaj for submitting his Ph.D. Thesis entitled Novel Algorithms for Improving Agricultural Planning and Operations using Artificial Intelligence and Game Theory
July 2023: Congratulations to Gogulapati Sreedurga for submitting her Ph.D. Thesis entitled Exploring Welfare Maximization and Fairness in Participatory Budgeting
July 2023: Congratulations to Amal Roy for contributing a state-of-the-art review paper for Sadhana: Amal Roy, Chandramani Singh, and Y. Narahari. Recent Advances in Modeling and Control of Epidemics using a Mean Field Approach. Sadhana, Indian Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences.
June 2023: Congratulations to all the six M.Tech. Project students for successfully completing their M.Tech. projects. The projects contribute the six components of Project GRAMA (Game theory, Random Processes, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning for (Indian) Agriculture):
June 2023: Congratulations to Anand Krishna for submitting his Ph.D. Thesis entitled Algorithms for Individual and Collective fairness Measures.
June 2023: Three papers accepted in IEEE CASE 2023 (International Conference on Automation science and Engineering, Auckland, New Zealand, August 2023). Congratulations to all the authors.
June 2023: Congratulations to Shivika Narang for defending her Ph.D. Thesis entitled Algorithms for Achieving Fairness and Efficiency in Matching Problems.
May 2023: Congratulations to Sreedurga and Vishakha for their papers in IJCAI-2023 (paper by Sreedurga is a single author paper).
April 2023: Congratulations to Anand Krishna for being awarded Best Presentation Prize in the IISc EECS Research Students Symposium.
March 2023: A Roundtable on Transformational Technologies for Indian Agriculture was held in the Department of CSA, IISc, on March 18, 2023. Click here for a digest of the Roundtable. The Roundtable was a sequel to the one day workshop on Transformational Technologies for Indian Agriculture held on January 10, 2022 (click here for the workshop report).
March 2023: Congratulations to Shivika Narang for submitting her Ph.D. Thesis entitled Algorithms for Achieving Fairness and Efficiency in Matching Problems
February 2023: Congratulations to Anand Krishna for being selected for a spotlight presentation at the PMRF Students Posters Presentations.
February 2023: Completed co-teaching, with Prof. Viraj Kumar, the course UE 101: Algorithms and Programming to the students of the inaugural batch of B.Tech. in Mathematics and Computing. I had co-taught, with Prof. M. Narasimha Murty, the above course to the students of the inaugural batch of B.Sc. (Research) students during Aug – dec 2011.
December 2022: Collaborative project initiated with Bharat Electronics Limited entitles PROMISE: Procurement Mechanisms for (Agricultural) Inputs and Services
September 2022: Paper accepted in WINE 2022: Siddharth Barman, Anand Krishna, Y. Narahari, Soumyarup Sadhukhan. Nash Welfare Guarantees for Fair and Efficient Coverage. WINE-2022.
July 2022: Paper in IJCAI: Siddharth Barman, Anand Krishna, Y. Narahari, Soumyarup Sadhukhan: Achieving Envy-Freeness with Limited Subsidies under Dichotomous Valuations. IJCAI-2022.
July 2022: Paper in IJCAI: Gogulapati Sreedurga, Mayank Ratan Bhardwaj, Y. Narahari: Maxmin Participatory Budgeting. IJCAI-2022.
June 2022: Took up additional responsibility as Director, Centre for Brain Research (https://cbr.iisc.ac.in/). The new building of the centre inaugurated by Respected Prime Minister Shri. Narendra Modi (https://www.deccanherald.com/
June 2022: Paper in ACM COMPASS: Mayank Ratan Bhardwaj, Azal Fatima, Inavamsi Enaganti, Y. Narahari: Incentive Compatible Mechanisms for Efficient Procurement of Agricultural Inputs for Farmers through Farmer Collectives. ACM COMPASS 2022.
April 2022: Shivika Narang selected for the Best Presentation Prize in the 2022 EECS Research Students Symposium Session on Artificial Intelligence: https://eecs.iisc.ac.in/EECS2022/awards.html
April 2022: Ganesh Ghalme joins as Assistant Professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad.
January 2022: Dr Soumyarup Sadhukhan, C.V. Raman Postdoc, joins the Department of Statistics, IIT-Kanpur, as Assistant Professor.
January 2022: INAE (Indian National Academy of Engineering) workshop on Technology Enabled Transformation of Indian Agriculture (January 10, 2022). Please click here for the workshop report.
October 2021: NABARD (The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, Government of India,) has awarded a project entltled Enabling and Empowering Indian Farmers through AI and Game Theory Based Services. (October 2021). For more details, click here.
Oct. 2021: Ganesh Sambhaji Ghalme and Arpita Biswas receive Ph.D. Degrees at the IISc Convocation.
Oct. 2021: Arpita Biswas selected for the Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award by the Indian National academy of Engineering
Sep. 2021: Arpita Biswas’s Ph.D. Dissertation selected for Best Thesis Award in the Department of CSA for the Academic Year 2020-21.
Aug. 2021: Y. Narahari introduces a new Course E0388: Topics in Artificial Intelligence for Social Good
Jul. 2021: K.S. Shivanjali (M.Tech. – CSE), Bazil Ahmad (M.Tech. – AI), and Someshwar Arnoorla (M.Tech. – AI) complete their M.Tech. Projects
May 2021: Paper accepted in the Journal of Machine Learning Research. Vishakha Patil, Ganesh Ghalme, Vineet Nayar, Y. Narahari. Achieving fairness in the stochastic multi-armed bandit problem. Journal of Machine Learning Research. 2021.
Apr. 2021: Soumyarup Sadhukhan, Ph.D. from the Indian Statistical Institute, joins as C.V. Raman Postdoc.
Mar. 2021: Paper accepted in the Artificial Intelligence Journal. Ganesh Ghalme, Swapnil Dhamal, Shweta Jain, Sujit Gujar, Y. Narahari. Balloooning multi-armed bandits. Artificial Intelligence, 2021
Jan 2021: Vishakha Patil and Anand Krishna selected for the Prime Minister’s Ph.D. Research Fellowship
My most recent R&D Projects (ongoing) are in the area of AIML and Game Theory applied to enable agricultural farmers.
These are sponsored by NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development) and BEL (Bharat Electronics Limited). For a complete list of my R&D Projects, please click here.
I am currently co-teaching with Prof. Viraj Kumar the course UENG-101 : Algorithms and Programming for the undergraduate students (August-December 2024). I will be co-teaching with Prof. Siddharth Barman the course E1 254 – Game Theory during the January-April 2025. I co-taught with Prof. Viraj Kumar, in 2022 and 2023, the course Algorithms and Programming to the undergraduate students. I have earlier offered the courses: Artificial Intelligence for Social Good, Topics in Game Theory, Electronic Commerce, Software Architecture, Supply Chain Management, Performance Modeling, and Data Structures and Algorithms. I have also co-taught a course on Algorithms and Programming (offered in August-December 2013, 2012, and 2011) to the undergraduate students at IISc.
Y. Narahari. Game Theory and Mechanism Design (March 2014). IISc Press and World Scientific.
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Y. Narahari, Dinesh Garg, Ramasuri Narayanam, Hastagiri Prakash. Game Theoretic Problems in Network Economics and Mechanism Design Solutions (April 2009). Springer Series in Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing.
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