Prof. Yashodhan Kanoria is the Sidney Taurel Associate Professor of Business in the Decision, Risk and Operations division at Columbia Business School. He received his B. Tech. degree (President of India Gold Medal) in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2007 and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2012.nnAfter completing his Ph.D., Prof. Kanoria spent a year at Microsoft Research New England during 2012-13 as a Schramm Postdoctoral Fellow. Later, he joined the University of Columbia in 2013 as an Assistant Professor.nnProf. Kanoria has worked on the design and optimization of marketplaces, especially matching markets. He has worked extensively on centralized college and school admissions, the design of search and matching platforms for labor, dating, accommodation, etc., foundational questions regarding the nature of equilibria in matching markets, and algorithms for dynamic matching and resource allocation. Prof. Kanoria has designed and helped implement a centralized seat allocation process for all centrally-funded engineering colleges in India, which has been running successfully since 2015, administered by the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA), preventing the wastage of hundreds of IIT seats each year.nn