Shubham Gupta is a doctoral student at the Fox School of Business in operations and supply chain management. His overarching research interest lies at the intersection of optimization and machine learning with applications in collaborative environments, platform ecosystems, and healthcare. Specifically, he focuses on emerging contractual issues in such settings to identify key trade-offs arising from strategic interactions between the parties involved in a value-creation process. Shubham’s work has been published in Management Science, one of the leading academic journals on operations management. Before joining the Ph.D. program at Fox, Shubham earned his MS in business from Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, and his BTech in information technology from USICT, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India. His professional experience includes working as a Marketing Research Analyst and later as an Account Manager for an IT consulting firm in the Bay Area, California.