Adithya Bhaskara

abhaskara@mit.edu

I am a(n incoming) Ph. D. student at MIT EECS. My research interests are in theoretical computer science, primarily in computational social choice theory, mathematical democracy, politics, and algorithmic game theory. I like to center my work at the intersection of theory and practice. I also have interests in algorithms and complexity.

I am very fortunate to be advised by Bailey Flanigan, and I am funded by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the MIT EECS Great Educators Fellowship.

Previously, I completed my undergraduate studies in mathematics and computer science on a Boettcher Scholarship at the University of Colorado Boulder. There, I was advised by Rafael Frongillo and Huck Bennett. My senior thesis was advised by Bailey Flanigan and titled “In Randomness we Trust: Tradeoffs in Sortition.”

If you have classical music suggestions for me, please email mahler@mit.edu.

I am not Aditya Bhaskara, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah.

news

May 18, 2026	I am very excited to visit Dominik Peters at Université Paris Dauphine - PSL for the month of June! After that, I will be attending EC’26 in Rome.
Apr 12, 2026	I’m fortunate to be recognized as a 2026 NSF Graduate Research Fellow, and I’m very excited to pursue the research in my proposal titled “Candidates’ Incentives & Voting Rules: Bridging the Gap Between Theory & Practice!”
Apr 03, 2026	I’m excited to start my Ph. D. in Computer Science at MIT EECS in the fall! I am fortunate to be advised by Bailey Flanigan. I’d love to connect with other researchers in the greater-Boston area; please get in touch!
Nov 07, 2025	I defended my proposal for my undergraduate thesis! The title of my talk was “No Representation Without Randomization! Tradeoffs Between Randomness, Representation, Manipulation-Robustness, and Other Desiderata for Sortition Algorithms.” I am very thankful to my thesis commitee: Bailey Flanigan, Rafael Frongillo, Joshua Strayhorn, and Bo Waggoner.
Oct 15, 2025	I will be attending Social Choice: Theory and Computation An Interdisciplinary Conference on Voting, Representation, and Districting, organized by the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy at Wellesley College from October 15 to October 17! I’m excited to both catch up with some friends and meet new people!

selected publications

A General Theory of Liquidity Provisioning for Prediction Markets

Adithya Bhaskara, Rafael M. Frongillo, and Maneesha Papireddygari

arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.08725, 2025

The slides and video links are for an older version of the paper, presented at the Workshop on Blockchains and Decentralized Finance at EC’24.

Abs arXiv Bib PDF Video Slides

In Decentralized Finance (DeFi), automated market makers typically implement liquidity provisioning protocols. These protocols allow third-party liquidity providers (LPs) to provide assets to facilitate trade in exchange for fees. This paper introduces a general framework for liquidity provisioning for cost-function prediction markets with any finite set of securities. Our framework is based on the idea of running several market makers "in parallel"; we show formally that several notions of parallel market making are equivalent to ours. The most general protocol therefore allows LPs to submit an arbitrary cost function, which specifies their liquidity over the entire price space, and determines the deposit required. We justify the need for this flexibility by demonstrating the inherent high dimensionality of liquidity. We also give several restricted protocols which are more computationally feasible. Furthermore, we show that our protocol recovers several existing DeFi protocols in the 2-asset case. Our work also contributes to the DeFi literature by giving a fully expressive protocol for any number of assets.
@article{bhaskara2025general, title = {A General Theory of Liquidity Provisioning for Prediction Markets}, author = {Bhaskara, Adithya and Frongillo, Rafael M. and Papireddygari, Maneesha}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2311.08725}, archiveprefix = {arXiv}, primaryclass = {cs.GT}, journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.08725}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08725}, note = {The slides and video links are for an older version of the paper, presented at the Workshop on Blockchains and Decentralized Finance at EC'24.} }