Prof. Devavrat Shah is Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Adjunct Professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai and Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Ikigai Labs. Prof. Shah earned his Tech. degree (awarded President of India Gold Medal) in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1999 and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2004.nnProf. Shah, after completing his Ph.D., joined as Assistant Professor in the Department of EECS at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (in 2005), where he is currently a Full Professor. He was Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of Celect, Inc from 2013 to 2019. He is a Founding Director, Statistics and Data Science Center, MIT (2016-2020) and Co-Founder, CTO of Ikigai Labs Inc. from 2019.