Anuj Vora is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Jio Institute. He was a postdoctoral researcher in Delft Center for Systems and Control at Delft University of Technology from June 2023 – May 2025. He received his Ph.D. in Systems and Control Engineering in 2022 from IIT Bombay. He attaiend his bachelors and masters degrees in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Madras in 2016.
His research deals with complex decision-making problems in decentralised, strategic and uncertain environments. During his postdoctoral tunure, he worked on developing stochastic models and algorithms for data-driven online decision-making. This has application ranging from recommendation systems, contract design, clinical trials, scheduling social media posts and advertisements for optimal engagement. His doctoral research dealt with decision-making non-cooperative multi-agent settings emerging in networked systems such as smart electricity grid, smart cities, and certain settings in social sciences such as screening of travellers.
Research Interests:
- Decision-making in multi-agent systems
- Systems Engineering
- Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
- Reinforcement Learning (Multi-armed Bandits)
- Game Theory
- Bayesian Theory
- Bayesian Optimisation
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Systems and Control Engineering, IIT Bombay (2022)
- Bachelors and Masters of Technology in Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras (2016)
- A.S. Vora and A. A. Kulkarni. “Shannon meets Myerson: Information extraction from a strategic sender” Mathematical Social Sciences (2024)
- A. S. Vora and A. A. Kulkarni. “Minimax Theorems for Finite Blocklength Lossy Joint Source-Channel Coding over an Arbitrarily Varying Channel” Problems of Information Transmission (2021)
- A. S. Vora and A. A. Kulkarni. “Fraud Detection and Deterrence in Electronic Voting Machines: A Game-Theoretic Approach” 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) (2023)
- A. S. Vora and A. A. Kulkarni. “Optimal Questionnaires for Screening of Strategic Agents” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). IEEE. (2021)
- A. S. Vora and A. A. Kulkarni. “Achievable Rates for Strategic Communication” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). IEEE. (2020)
- A. S. Vora and A. A. Kulkarni. “Information Extraction from a Strategic Sender over a Noisy Channel” 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). (2020)
- A. S. Vora and A. A. Kulkarni. “Zero Error Strategic Communication” International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM). IEEE. (2020)