Welcome!

I’m a Ph.D. student in Brown University’s Economics Department. Previously, I worked as a Predoctoral Research Fellow at Microsoft Research’s Economics & Computation Group. Before that, I worked as a Data Analyst at One Drop and as an ML Intern for two summers at Lockheed Martin. I graduated from UC Berkeley in 2021 with a double major in Economics and Computer Science.

I am highly interested in studying both the drivers of technology and the impacts of modern technology on human decision-making. Current and past research that I have been involved with includes projects related to (i) how AI has affected jobs in the healthcare industry, (ii) the spread of misinformation in social networks, (iii) understanding how users respond to streaming-related ads on search engines, (iv) modeling biased belief formation in the presence of unique and repeated information, (vi) solving for equilibrium beliefs in a model of social networks with polarized users and platform moderation, and (vii) measuring labor turnover in markets with state-funded worker training grants.

Thanks for visiting!

CV

You can view my CV here.

Research

Publications and Presentations

“Soft Actor-Critic Solution to a Security Game with Deception and An Informant” with Jinhong Guo, Martin Hofmann, Carter Veldhuizen, and Valerie Champagne
26th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, 2021

Works in Progress

“Streaming Services and Multilevel Conversion Journeys” with David Rothschild and Elad Yom-Tov. First Draft, currently under revision.

“The Role of Memory in Beliefs Formation” with Markus M. Möbius, Lukas Bolte, Tanya S. Rosenblat, and Pierre-Luc Vautrey

“The Illusion of Depth: Belief Formation and Search Dynamics Under LLM Summarization”

Contact

You can reach me at sidsatya.research@gmail.com.