Dr. Abhishek Ray is an assistant professor at the Information Systems and Operations Management Area at the Costello College of Business, George Mason University. Dr. Ray holds a Ph.D. (MIS) from Purdue University and a B. Tech. (Electrical Engineering) from NIT Allahabad and an MBA from IMT Ghaziabad. Dr. Ray worked in IT consulting for five years before entering academia. His research interests include digital and decentralized social networks, game-theoretic policy concerns in online platforms, and big data computational challenges. He uses economics, linear/nonlinear optimization, operations research, and machine learning for his research. He has presented at leading conferences such as ICIS, IEEE Blockchain, and EVOCOP. His work has been published in top journals such as Information Systems Research, IISE Transactions and Journal of Management Information Systems.