He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, and was a postdoctoral fello w at the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard University. He is broadly interested in algorithmic economics—theory and applications. His research has focused on topics such as computational social choice, fair division, game theory, prediction markets, and peer prediction. Shah is the winner of the 2013-2014 Hima and Jive Graduate Fellowship, the 2014-2015 Facebook Fellowship, and the 2016 IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award.