Korok Ray

Korok is an Associate Professor at the Mays Business School of Texas A&M University and Director of the Mays Innovation Research Center. Korok is a game theorist who studies multi-agent contracting. He studies incentive systems in repeated environments where rational agents compete, work, and produce. His research sits on the boundary between social science and computation, and his chief area of application is the Bitcoin blockchain and the Lightning Network. Korok founded the Mays Innovation Research Center, an interdisciplinary center at Texas A&M dedicated to the study of innovation. The Center supports faculty research, engages students, hosts events, and distributes this knowledge broadly to the campus, scholars, policymakers, managers and the public. Korok earned a BS in mathematics from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. He has taught at the University of Chicago and Georgetown University, as well as Texas A&M University. He also served on the Council of Economic Advisers of the White House from 2007 to 2009 during the historic financial crisis.