Co-Director, Purdue
e-Business Research Center (PERC)
Co-Director Indiana Consortium for E-Business Research
Co-Director SEAS Laboratory
Office: Krannert 744
Phone: (765) 494-5703
efax: (208) 275 0595
Email: mehta@purdue.edu
Academic Degrees
| Ph.D. |
1990 |
Harvard University |
| M. Phil. |
1985 |
Oxford University |
| M.A. |
1981 |
Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University
|
| B.A. |
1979 |
St. Stephen's College, Delhi University |
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Biography
Dr. Shailendra Raj Mehta is Visiting Associate Professor
of Strategic
Management at Purdue University ’s Krannert
School of Management and the Co-Director of the Purdue
E-Business Research Center.
He has done extensive research in the areas of Entrepreneurship,
Industrial Organization, Information Economics and Experimental
Economics. His research was recently the subject of
a full-length review by the Economist. He has also done
ground breaking work (along with Dr. Alok Chaturvedi
) in the area of Synthetic Economies by creating the
most comprehensive framework for agent based research
using a combination of human and artificial agents.
This technology, called SEAS,
or Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulations,
has been used by the Army for Recruiting, by the Navy
for Inventory management, and by researchers in Economics,
Management, Computer Science and Psychology. The technology
is currently being used to model Homeland Security Issues
for the State of Indiana and the United States . He
has authored or co-authored proposals that have brought
in over three million dollars of research funding to
Purdue University over the last couple of years from
the National Science Foundation, the 21st Century Fund,
Intel and others. He has been on over a dozen doctoral
dissertation committees. He is also an award winning
teacher, having successfully taught undergraduate, masters
and doctoral students. He has been awarded one of Purdue
University 's highest awards, the Class of 1922 Award
for Teaching, Innovation and Helping Students Learn.
For six years he led Purdue’s Entrepreneurship
Initiative as part of which he organized the flagship
Entrepreneurial Competition and in the process worked
with over two hundred teams of students on their business
plans, several of whom went on to get venture funding.
This program is now among the top five such programs
in the world.
In 1999 he founded (along with Prof. Alok Chaturvedi)
Simulex Inc. a high-tech company in the Purdue Technology
Park to commercialize the SEAS
technology, which is being used extensively in the public
and private sectors.
This extensive entrepreneurship experience has led
him to develop innovative entrepreneurship courses at
Purdue and elsewhere.
His undergraduate degree is from the University of
Delhi , his M.Phil. is from Balliol College , Oxford
, and his Ph.D. is from Harvard. At Harvard he was the
research assistant to Prof. Amartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel
Laureate in Economics.
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Research Interests
- Behavioral and Experimental Economics with a special
emphasis of Agent-based Synthetic Economies
- Entrepreneurship
- Industrial organization (including the internal
organization of firms and the evolution of standards)
- Labor economics (including the formation of norms
and the theories of wage formation and of wage distributions)
- Applied microeconomic theory
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