Devavrat Shah

Devavrat Shah serves as the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, where he has been teaching since 2005. After receiving his B.Tech. in Computer Science from IIT Bombay, where he earned the President of India Gold Medal, he completed his Ph.D. from Stanford University in Computer Science. As the Director of MIT's Statistics and Data Science Center and the MicroMasters Program in Statistics and Data Science, Shah has made groundbreaking contributions to network algorithms, statistical inference, and social data processing. His research has earned him numerous accolades, including the Erlang Prize from INFORMS Applied Probability Society, the ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Award, and multiple Test of Time paper awards. Beyond academia, he co-founded Celect Inc., which was acquired by Nike, and Ikigai Labs, demonstrating his commitment to practical applications of his research. His work spans diverse areas from resource allocation in communications networks to machine learning algorithms for social data processing, making significant impacts in both theoretical developments and practical applications. Shah's innovative research has been particularly influential in developing algorithms for ranking, recommendations, and crowdsourcing, while his contributions to stochastic networks and statistical inference have advanced understanding across electrical engineering, computer science, and operations research.