Welcome !! I'm a fourth year graduate student in UW Madison CS department.
I graduated from IIT Madras in July 2008 with a B.Tech in Computer Science. My undergraduate thesis work was broadly in the area of Algorithms in special Graphs, and my thesis advisor was Prof. C. PanduRangan.
Optimal Crowdsourcing Contests, SODA 2012 (pdf)
Shuchi Chawla, Jason Hartline, Balasubramanian Sivan
(previously appeared in Workshop on Social Computing and User Generated Content, 2011)
Near Optimal Online Algorithms and Fast Approximation Algorithms for Resource Allocation Problems
, EC 2011 (pdf)
Nikhil Devanur, Kamal Jain, Balasubramanian Sivan, Chris Wilkens
Multi-Parameter Mechanism Design and Sequential Posted Pricing, STOC 2010 (pdf)
Shuchi Chawla, Jason Hartline, David Malec, Balasubramanian Sivan
The Power of Randomness in Bayesian Optimal Mechanism Design , EC 2010 (pdf)
Invited to special issue of Games and Economic Behavior (GEB)
Shuchi Chawla, David Malec, Balasubramanian Sivan
On Conditional Covering Problem, Mathematics in Computer Science, Special Issue on "Advances in Combinatorial Algorithms", Birkhauser Basel, 2009.
(pdf)
Balasubramanian Sivan, S. Harini, C. Pandurangan
(previously appeared in the 19th International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms, Nagoya, Japan, 2008)
Core and Conditional Core Path of Specified Length in Special Classes of Graphs, WALCOM 2009, Third Annual Workshop on Algorithms and Computation, Kolkata, India. (pdf)
Balasubramanian Sivan, S.Harini, C.Pandurangan
Here is a copy of my resume