Her research focuses on algorithms and mechanism design in the context of strategic behavior on the Web, particularly social computing, user-generated content, and crowdsourcing, and markets and mechanisms for privacy. Arpita received her B.Tech from IIT Bombay in 2001, and her PhD from Stanford in 2006, with a thesis on designing well-connected networks using convex optimization. Prior to joining Cornell, she spent 6 years (2006-2012) in the Microeconomics and Social Sciences group at Yahoo! Research.