R. K. Amit is Professor at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai, India. He completed his undergraduate studies at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur and his doctoral studies at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He heads the Decision Engineering & Pricing (DEEP) Lab at IIT Madras, which specializes in engineering best decisions using wisdom from optimization, game theory, mechanism design, and pricing. His research has been published in top-tier journals. He is actively involved in high-impact, industry-relevant research.