Kartik Hosanagar Faculty Profile

Kartik Hosanagar
Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Management

PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, 2003; M.Phil., Carnegie Mellon University, 2002; MS, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India, 1999; BE, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India, 1999

Research Areas
Design and pricing of technology products and services; search engines; peer to peer networks; product management in IT (eCommerce, telecommunications, and software) firms; content delivery strategies in ecommerce

Recent Consulting
Consulted for variety of technology firms including NTT DoCoMo and Littlekoala. Corporate training and speaking engagements include Wipro Systems, Object Orb, Bangalore IT lecture series

Current Projects
Product Diffusion and Incentive Mechanisms in Peer to Peer Networks; Design of Search Engines; Ad Ranking Policies in Search Engines; Rating Systems in Online Marketplaces; Content Delivery.

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 2003-present.

Other Positions
Honeywell Software Operations, 1999; Novell Inc, 1998

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
William Cooper Doctoral Dissertation award, 2003; Best Paper Award at Consortium on Technology, Policy and Management, Netherlands, 2002; eBRC (e-Business Research Center) Doctoral Award, 2002; Offered the Castanga fellowship at University of California, Berkeley, 1999; Doctoral Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, 1999-2001; National Talent Scholarship (NTS), India; University fellowship, B.I.T.S, Pilani, 1994

Representative Publications
(with A. Montgomery, R. Krishnan, and K. Clay)
"Designing a Better Shopbot." Management Science 50.2 (2004).

(with R. Krishnan, J. Chuang, and V. Choudhary)
"Pricing and Resource Allocation in Caching Services with Multiple Levels of QoS." Management Science (forthcoming).

(with P. Han, and Y. Tan)
"Optimal Rebating Strategies in Peer to Peer Content Distribution." International Conference on Information Systems(ICIS), 2005.

"Utility Theoretic Approach to Determining Wait Times in Distributed Information Retrieval." ACM SIGIR Conference, 2005.