Sukhatme joined Michigan Law from Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as Associate Dean for Research and Academic Programs, Anne Fleming Research Professor, Professor of Law, and Co-Director of the Georgetown Law and Economics Workshop series. He was awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2021, and he previously served as the Thomas Alva Edison Visiting Scholar at the US Patent and Trademark Office. Sukhatme received his PhD in Economics from Princeton University, where he was awarded the 2014 Towbes Prize for Outstanding Teaching. He received his JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he served as Notes Editor of the Harvard Law Review.

After law school, Sukhatme clerked for the Hon. Vaughn R. Walker on the US District Court for the Northern District of California and the Hon. Ann Claire Williams on the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He previously worked at Latham & Watkins LLP and received his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering (highest honors) with a minor in Mathematics from the University of Illinois. Sukhatme also co-founded Spindrop, an AI music technology startup with a novel approach for automatically mixing songs.

In 2020, Sukhatme co-founded Free Our Vote, a non-partisan, non-profit organization of data scientists, economists, and legal researchers that seeks to restore voting rights for people with past felony convictions. Free Our Vote has reached out to hundreds of thousands of returning citizens across nine states, clarifying their voter eligibility prior to the 2020 and 2024 elections.

Sukhatme has published articles in the Harvard Law Review, Duke Law Journal, American Law and Economics Review, and Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, among many others. His current research focuses on empirical topics related to crime, AI and the law, and innovation and patent law. He teaches Property, Patent Law, Advanced Corporate Finance: Quantitative Analysis and Valuation, and Empirical Analysis for Lawyers and Policymakers.