Souvik Roy

Souvik Roy is a Professor at the Applied Statistics Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. His research spans multiple disciplines including Game Theory, Mechanism Design, Social Choice Theory, and Probability Theory with applications in diffusion processes, percolation, and random matrices.

• Education: PhD (2010) from the University of Maastricht; M.Stat (2006) from the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi.
• Research Interests: Game Theory (Bayesian learning, supermodular games), Mechanism Design (randomized rules, constrained domains), Social Choice (ordinal Bayesian IC, hybrid domains), Probability Theory (diffusion, percolation).

His recent work focuses on Bayesian best response dynamics, probabilistic cellular automata in percolation games, and incentive-compatible voting systems. Articles appear in journals like Games and Economic Behavior, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, and Social Choice and Welfare, reflecting interdisciplinary applications in economics, computer science, and statistical physics.

• Scientific Awards: Mahalanobis Memorial Medal (2024), Social Choice and Welfare Award (2024), Professor M.J. Manohar Rao Award (2016).
• Students: Mentored over 15 Master’s students (M.Stat, M.Math, MSQE) and PhD advisees, including Madhuparna Karmokar and Ujjwal Kumar, with projects on strategy-proofness, mechanism design, and graph-based voting.