Adithya Bhaskara

Undergraduate Researcher

I am an honors mathematics, applied mathematics, and computer science undergraduate researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder. I am primarily advised by Rafael Frongillo and Huck Bennett.

I am broadly interested in theoretical computer science, including computational social choice theory, algorithmic economics, fine-grained complexity, and error-correcting codes for matrix multiplication.

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.

Previously, I have worked to understand liquidity provisioning in automated market makers, with applications to prediction markets for Arrow-Debreu securities and decentralized exchanges. In addition, I have worked on a project involving using techniques from coding theory to develop fast and efficient matrix multiplication verification algorithms.

At this time, I hope for an academic career in theoretical computer science. I will be applying to computer science Ph. D. programs—primarily in computational social choice—in Fall 2025, hoping to start in Fall 2026.

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

news

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.
Jul 08, 2024	I’ll be giving a talk at the Blockchain and Decentralized Finance workshop at EC’24 at Yale on Bhaskara et al. (2023), joint work with Rafael Frongillo and Maneesha Papireddygari.
Jun 28, 2024	I am honored to receive the Marlene Massaro Pratto and David Pratto Scholarship in Mathematics. This scholarship is awarded annually to exceptional upper level undergraduate Mathematics majors.

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 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.} }