Rate My Professor Yadati Narahari

Professor Yadati Narahari has been affiliated with the Indian Institute of Science since 1979, completing a B.E. in Electrical Communication Engineering (1979–1982), an M.E. from the School of Automation (1982–1984), and a Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science and Automation (1984–1987). He served on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Automation from February 1988 until July 31, 2024, and is currently an Honorary Professor. He held the position of Chair of the Department from December 2009 to July 2014 and served as Dean of the Division of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Sciences from August 2014 to July 2021. Additional administrative roles include chairing the Office of Digital Campus and Informational Technology Services from January 2016 to December 2020 and officiating as Director of the Centre for Brain Research from June 2022 to December 2023. He was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992 and a Visiting Scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 1997.

His research applies game theory, mechanism design, and artificial intelligence techniques to problems at the interface of computer science and economics, with interests in auctions and markets, cooperative game theory, computational social choice, machine learning, and data analytics, including applications in digital agriculture and public health. He teaches courses on game theory and artificial intelligence for social good. He is an elected Fellow of the IEEE, the Indian National Science Academy, the Indian Academy of Sciences, the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Sciences, India. He received the J.C. Bose National Fellowship and the IISc Alumni Award for Research Excellence in Engineering in 2009. He has authored or co-authored three books: Game Theory and Mechanism Design (2014), Game Theoretic Problems in Network Economics and Mechanism Design Solutions (2009), and Performance Modeling of Automated Manufacturing Systems (1992). He has supervised 29 Ph.D. graduates and numerous master’s students.