Raveesh Mayya

Biography

Raveesh Mayya is an Assistant Professor of Technology, Operations and Statistics. Professor Mayya's research focuses on digital platform policies and platform governance. His work examines technology-enabled platforms, such as online sharing markets or mobile app marketplaces, as the enablers of efficient transactions and mitigators of asymmetric information. With a deep interest in understanding the repercussions of private policy changes initiated by platforms, his research quantifies both the intended and unintended consequences of such changes. Through his research, he intends to contribute to the regulatory space, while helping to improve the governance aspects of private digital platforms. He uses a combination of methodologies, including econometric analyses and machine learning, to study issues of interest such as the impact of information privacy policies on mobile platforms, the effects of incorporating non-contracted complementors on the network, platform governance questions around digital token tradability and decentralized governance, and the impact of Generative AI technologies on innovation.

Professor Mayya’s research has been featured among the best papers at multiple conferences, including the AOM Annual Meeting, WISE, WHICB and ICIS. He has received several prestigious awards, such as the Best Doctoral Paper in Innovation and Entrepreneurship by the Ed Snider Center, the Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, the Frank T. Paine Award for Academic Excellence and the Allan N. Nash Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, the highest doctoral awards at the Smith School of Business. He has also been honored with the prestigious Distinguished Teaching Award by the Smith School. Some of his working papers have also received grants, including the NET Institute Summer research grants. He was also chosen as the inaugural Provost’s ECFI Ambassador for the Center for Faculty Advancement at NYU.

Before his Ph.D., Professor Mayya had brief stints in the Mahindra Group’s leadership pipeline program and with Cisco Systems as a software developer, both in India. Professor Mayya earned his Bachelor of Engineering from Visveswaraya Technological University (PESIT Bengaluru) and his MBA from the University of Delhi (FMS Delhi). He received his PhD in Information Systems from Smith School of Business, University of Maryland.

Research Interests

• Digital Platform Policies
• Generative AI and Innovation
• Platform Governance

Courses Taught

• Database Systems
• Information Technology in Business and Society

Academic Background

Ph.D., Information Systems
University of Maryland

M.B.A., General Management
University of Delhi

B.E., Electronics and Communications Engineering
Visveswaraya Technological University

Selected Publications

Mayya, Li (2024)
Growing Platforms by Adding Complementors without a Contract
Information Systems Research (Forthcoming)

Mayya R, Viswanathan S (2024)
Delaying Informed Consent: An Empirical Investigation of Mobile Apps' Upgrade Decisions
Management Science (Forthcoming)

Mayya R, Ye S, Viswanathan S, and Agarwal R (2021)
Who Forgoes Screening in Online Markets and Why? Evidence from Airbnb
Management Information Systems Quarterly, 2021