I default to thinking in systems — noticing what’s missing or inefficient, and trying to make or fix it.
In a sealed-bid first-price auction, rational bidders should:
Most of my time right now goes into LectureIQ — a tool for professors to keep lectures engaging and get a clear read on how well the material is landing.
I’m a Gretler Fellow at UCSB. I research stablecoins and their clearing processes with Professor Rod Garratt — most of my reading has been around recent depegging events and current redemption frameworks.
And building experiment software for an auction theory class — so students learn about auctions by actually participating in them.
I write too. Fundamentally Different — essays on structural shifts, and whether the frameworks we built around things still hold.
Find me at @sashwatjain15 on X