Sourav Sahoo

I am a third-year PhD student at the MIT Operations Research Center, where I am advised by Prof. Negin Golrezaei. My research interests lie at the intersection of computer science, operations research, and economics, with a current focus on online learning and auctions.

Previously, I earned my Dual Degree (B.Tech & M.Tech) in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, advised by Prof. Abhishek Sinha.

News

[2026.01] Learning to Bid in Discriminatory Auctions with Budget Constraints accepted at AISTATS 2026.

[2025.05] Learning Safe Strategies for Value Maximizing Buyers in Uniform Price Auctions accepted at ICML 2025.

[2023.09] Started PhD at MIT!

[2022.07] Graduated from IIT Madras!

[2022.02] Distributed Online Optimization with Byzantine Adversarial Agents accepted at ACC 2022.

Working Papers

Learning Safe Strategies for Value Maximizing Buyers in Uniform Price Auctions

Negin Golrezaei and Sourav Sahoo

Major Revision, Management Science

ICML 2025, 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning

🏆 First Place, 2025 RMP Jeff McGill Student Paper Award

🏆 Second Place, 2025 Michael H. Rothkopf Junior Researcher Paper Prize

Slides

Conferences

Learning to Bid in Discriminatory Auctions with Budget Constraints

Negin Golrezaei and Sourav Sahoo

AISTATS 2026, 29th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics

⭐ Spotlight Presentation (top 3%)

Distributed Online Optimization with Byzantine Adversarial Agents

Sourav Sahoo, Anand Gokhale and Rachel Kalpana Kalaimani

ACC 2022, 41st American Control Conference

k-experts: Online Policies and Fundamental Limits

Samrat Mukhopadhyay, Sourav Sahoo, and Abhishek Sinha

AISTATS 2022, 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics

Code

A Segment Level Approach to Speech Emotion Recognition using Transfer Learning

Sourav Sahoo, Puneet Kumar, Balasubramanian Raman and Partha Pratim Roy

ACPR 2019, 5th Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition

Code

Workshops

Multi-Modal Detection of Alzheimer's Disease from Speech and Text

Amish Mittal*, Sourav Sahoo*, Arnhav Datar*, Juned Kadiwala*, Hrithwik Shalu and Jimson Mathew

BIOKDD 2021, 20th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics

*Authors contributed equally