Akshit Kumar

Akshit Kumar

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Algorithms, Data, and Market Design at Yale University. I recently graduated from the Decision, Risk and Operations division at Columbia Business School, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Omar Besbes and Prof. Yash Kanoria. Prior to Columbia, I completed my Masters in Electrical Engineering from University of Michigan and before that I graduated with a B.Tech (Hons.) in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. I am broadly interested in the operations of online platforms and marketplaces.

Feature-Based Dynamic Matching
Yilun Chen, Yash Kanoria, Akshit Kumar, Wenxin Zhang
Forthcoming in Operations Research
First Place, 2024 Jeff McGill RMP Best Student Paper Prize
EC 2023 | ACM Conference on Economics and Computation
ssrn| slides|poster|nick arnosti's blog post

Dynamic Resource Allocation: Algorithmic Design Principles and Spectrum of Achievable Performances
Omar Besbes, Yash Kanoria, Akshit Kumar
Operations Research 73(3):1273-1288
Second Place, 2024 Michael H. Rothkopf Junior Research Paper Prize
Finalist, 2023 INFORMS George Nicholson Student Paper Competition
Finalist, 2023 Jeff McGill RMP Best Student Paper Prize
An earlier version of this paper appeared as an extended abstract in the Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, EC'22 with the title The Multi-secretary Problem with Many Types
arXiv|slides| poster | flash talk| EC talk

What Is Your AI Agent Buying? Evaluation, Implications and Emerging Questions for Agentic E-Commerce
Amine Allouah, Omar Besbes, Josue Figueroa, Yash Kanoria, Akshit Kumar
arXiv|ssrn|website|code|data

The Impact of Rankings and Personalized Recommendations in Marketplaces
Omar Besbes, Yash Kanoria, Akshit Kumar
Journal Version Under Preparation
EC 2025 | ACM Conference on Economics and Computation
arXiv|slides| poster

Performance of LLMs on Stochastic Modeling Operations Research Problems: From Theory to Practice
Akshit Kumar, Tianyi Peng, Yuhang Wu, Assaf Zeevi
WSC 2025 | Winter Simulation Conference
arXiv

Breaking the Unit Throughput Barrier in Random Access Protocol Based Distributed Systems
Akshit Kumar, Parikshit Hegde, Rahul Vaze, Amira Alloum, Cédric Adjih
NCC 2023 | National Conference on Communications
ieee| arXiv

Low-cost aerial imaging for small holder farmers
Aditya Jain, Zerina Kapetanovic, Akshit Kumar, Vasuki Narasimha Swamy, Rohit Patil, Deepak Vasisht, Rahul Sharma, Manohar Swaminathan, Ranveer Chandra, Anirudh Badam, Gireeja Ranade, Sudipta Sinha, Akshay Uttama Nambi SN
COMPASS'19 | ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies
Best Paper Award

Speed scaling under QoS constraints with finite buffer
Parikshit Hegde, Akshit Kumar, Rahul Vaze
WiOpt'18 | International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad hoc, and Wireless Networks