Appointments
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08.2020-todaySenior Research Scientist, Google Research, Zurich, Switzerland
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01.2021-todayVisiting Senior Fellow, Department of Mathematics, London School of Economics
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08.2019-07.2020Visiting Researcher, Google Research, Zurich, Switzerland
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08.2019-12.2020Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, London School of Economics (on leave)
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09.2016-07.2019Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, London School of Economics
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08.2015-08.2016Senior Researcher, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zürich
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08.2014-07.2015LSE Fellow in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, London School of Economics
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10.2013-04.2014Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
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05.2013-09.2013Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
(with Eva Tardos)
Education
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09.2008-04.2013PhD in Computer Science, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Thesis: Challenges in Algorithmic Mechanism Design
Advisor: Monika Henzinger -
10.2003-05.2008German Diplom in Computer Science, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
Thesis: Loadbalancing in Web Search Engines
Advisor: Dorothea Wagner
Summer internships
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07.2011-09.2011Software Engineering Intern, Google, Zürich, Switzerland
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06.2010-08.2010Visiting PhD Student, Department of Computer Science, Harvard University
Host: David C. Parkes
Awards and honors
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06.2019ACM SIGecom Best Full Paper Award at the 20th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC’19), Phoenix, AZ, USA
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10.2018LSE Excellence in Education Award
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03.2015Selected for the SET for BRITAIN Exhibition at the UK Parliament
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08.2009-04.2013Fellowship by Swiss Study Foundation (Schweizerische Studienstiftung)
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06.2012ACM SIGecom Best Paper Award at the 13th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC’12), Valencia, Spain
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04.2010iBiblio Best Poster Award at the 19th World Wide Web Conference (WWW’10), Hyderabad, India
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05.2008German Diplom “with distinction” from KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
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11.2003-05.2008Fellowship by German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
Grants
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04.2019-03.2021British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant “Contract Theory through the Algorithmic Lens”11.2016-todayCOST Action European Network for Collaboration on Kidney Exchange Programs02.2015Marie Curie Individual Fellowship
(Not taken up, because it could not be transferred to Switzerland)05.2013-04.2014Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Swiss National Science FoundationConsulting
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08.2016-todayKidney Paired Donation in Switzerland (KiPaDoS)
Advisor to Swiss Government, Swiss Transplant, and analitica SA
Organization of workshops
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07.2022EC’22 Workshop: Algorithmic Contract Design: Present and Future
Co-organizers: Inbal Talgam-Cohen
Panelists: Nika Haghtalab, Brendan Lucier, Ilya Segal
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12.2017Dynamic Pricing Workshop, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Co-organizers: Jose Correa, Juan Escobar, Max Klimm
Keynotes: Dirk Bergemann, Jason Hartline, Garrett van Ryzin
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06.2017Game Theory Meets Computational Learning Theory, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
Co-organizers: Paul Goldberg, Yishay Mansour
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02.02174th (German) Day on Computational Game Theory, Zürich, Switzerland
Co-organizers: Paolo Penna, Sven Seuken, Peter Widmayer
Keynotes: Roger Wattenhofer, Felix Brandt
Workshop Homepage
Program committees
- 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, EC’23 (Area Chair), London, UK
- International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML’23 (Area Chair), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- 32nd The Web Conference, TheWebConf’23 (SPC), Austin, TX, USA
- 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS’22 (Area Chair)
- 15th Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory, SAGT’22, Colchester, UK
- 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, EC’22 (Area Chair), Boulder, CO, USA
- 31st The Web Conference, TheWebConf’22, Lyon, France
- 17th Conference on Web and Internet Economics, WINE’21 (SPC)
- 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS’21 (Area Chair)
- 22nd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, EC’21, Hungary, Budapest
- 30th The Web Conference, TheWebConf’21, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 21th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation EC’20 (SPC), virtual
- 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS’20, Vancouver, CA
- 37th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML’20, Vienna, Austria
- 20th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation EC’19, Phoenix, AZ, USA
- 46th Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP’19, Patras, Greece
- 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI’19, Honolulu, HI, USA
- 14th Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation, NetEcon’19, Phoenix, AZ, USA
- 19th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, EC’18, Ithaca, NY, USA
- 14th Conference on Web and Internet Economics, WINE’18, Oxford, UK
- 13th Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation, NetEcon’18, Irvine, CA, USA
- 18th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, EC’17, Cambridge, MA, USA
- 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI’17, San Francisco, CA, USA
- 12th Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation, NetEcon’17, Cambridge, MA, USA
- 17th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, EC’16, Maastricht, Netherlands
- 9th Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory, SAGT’16, Liverpool, UK
- 16th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, EC’15, Portland, OR, USA
- 24th Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI’15, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 15th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, EC’14, Palo Alto, CA, USA
- 10th Ad Auctions Workshop, AdAuctions’14, Palo Alto, CA, USA
- 13th Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS’14, Paris, France
- 14th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, EC’13, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- 23rd Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI’13, Beijing, China
- 9th Ad Auctions Workshop, AdAuctions’13, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- 2nd Workshop on Matching under Preferences, Match-Up’12, Beijing, China
Reviewing
Reviewing for journals
- Econometrica, Econometric Society
- Journal on Computing, SIAM
- Operations Research, INFORMS
- Management Science, INFORMS
- Mathematics of Operations Research, INFORMS
- Games and Economics Behavior, Elsevier
- Mathematical Programming, Springer
- Transactions on Economics and Computation, ACM
- Algorithmica, Springer
- Theory of Computing Systems, Springer
Reviewing for conferences
- 53rd ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing,STOC’21 Rome, Italy
- Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization,IPCO’21 Atlanta, GA, USA
- 31st International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, ISAAC’20, online
- 31st ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA’21, Alexandria, VA, USA
- 61st Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS’20, Durham, NC, USA
- 52nd Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC’20, Chicago, IL, USA
- 11th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science, ITCS’20, Seattle, WA, USA
- 30th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA’20, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- 27th European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA’19, Munich, Germany
- 51st Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC’19, Phoenix, AZ, USA
- 29th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA’19, San Diego, CA, USA
- 26th European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA’18, Helsinki, Finland
- 49th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC’18, New York, NY, USA
- 28th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA’18, New Orleans, LA, USA
- 10th Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory, SAGT’17, L’Aquila, Italy
- 25th European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA’17, Vienna, Austria
- 44th Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, ICALP’17, Warsaw, Poland
- 49th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC’17, Montreal, Canada
- 27th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA’17, Barcelona, Spain
- 26th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA’16, Arlington, VA, USA
- 11th Conference on Web and Internet Economics, WINE’15, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 25th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA’15, San Diego, CA, USA
- 42nd Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, ICALP’15, Kyoto, Japan
- 23rd European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA’15, Patras, Greece
- 8th Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory, SAGT’15, Saarbrücken, Germany
- 6th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science, ITCS’15, Rehovot, Israel
- 7th Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory, SAGT’14, Haifa, Israel
- 9th Conference on Web and Internet Economics, WINE’13, Palo Alto, CA, USA
- 47th Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC’13, Palo Alto, CA, USA
- 13th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, EC’12, Valencia, Spain
- 8th Conference on Web and Internet Economics, WINE’13, Liverpool, UK
- 12th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, EC’11, San Jose, CA, USA
- 25th Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI’11, San Francisco, CA, USA
- 14th European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA’06, Zürich, Switzerland
Reviewing of grant proposals
- UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
- Leverhulme Trust
- Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
- The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
Work on external bodies
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09.2018-todayLiason Professor, German National Academic Scholarship Foundation
(Vertrauensdozent, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
Departmental services
Committee memberships
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09.2018-todayMember of the Departmental Research Committee
Organization of seminars
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09.2016-08.2019Seminar on Combinatorics, Games and Optimization
Department of Mathematics, London School of Economics
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09.2014-08.2015Seminar on Discrete Mathematics and Game Theory
Department of Mathematics, London School of Economics
(together with Peter Allen and Jozef Skokan)