Adithya Bhaskara

dith@mit.edu

I am an honors mathematics and computer science undergraduate researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder. I am primarily advised by Rafael Frongillo and Huck Bennett. I will start my Ph. D. in Fall 2026 at MIT EECS.

My research interests are in theoretical computer science, primarily in computational social choice theory, mathematical democracy, politics, and algorithmic game theory. Often, I center my work at the intersection of theory and practice. I also have interests in algorithms and complexity.

I am currently working on my undergraduate thesis in social choice theory, advised by Bailey Flanigan. We hope to understand tradeoffs between different desiderata for the randomized selection of citizens’ assemblies (sortition), especially in the context of alternate selection and manipulation.

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

news

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. Slides are here.
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!
Jun 15, 2025	I will be attending EC’25 at Stanford from July 6 to July 11! I am very grateful to Rafael Frongillo for supporting my attendance under an NSF REU grant. I’m looking forward to connect with those going!
Mar 31, 2025	Thanks to the Boettcher Foundation’s Educational Enrichment Grant, I will be attending STOC’25 in Prague, Czechia from June 23 to June 27, 2025. I’m also excited to attend The Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School in Computer Science (CMMRS) in Saarbrücken, Germany from July 27 to August 3, 2025. I appreciate both the Boettcher Foundation and CMMRS for fully funding these opportunities.

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.} }