I am a Staff Research Scientist at Google Switzerland. Before joining Google, I was an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at London School of Economics, where I still hold a role as visiting faculty. I work on problems at the intersection of Algorithms, Game Theory, Contract Theory, and Mechanism Design.

I received my PhD in Computer Science from EPFL Lausanne. My PhD advisor was Monika Henzinger. During my PhD I visited David Parkes at Harvard University, and I did a summer internship at Google. Afterwards, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Tim Roughgarden at Stanford University and Éva Tardos at Cornell University, an LSE Fellow in Mathematics at London School of Economics, and a Senior Researcher at ETH Zürich.

I am an alumnus of both the German and the Swiss National Academic Foundation. I have been awarded a Best Paper Award at WWW 2024, a Best Full Paper Award at EC 2019, and a Best Paper Award at EC 2012. I am one of the winners of the 2017/18 LSE Excellence in Education Awards.

News

• [December 2024] I will give a Keynote at WINE 2024. Thanks to the organizers for inviting me!
• [October 2024] Our paper Multi-Agent Combinatorial Contracts was accepted to SODA 2025.
• [September 2024] I gave a Keynote at SAGT 2024 in Amsterdam. Thanks to the organizers for inviting me!
• [August 2024] I gave an ADFOCS 2024 summer school on “Prophet Inequalities” at Max-Planck Institute for Informatics. Follow link for slides and recordings.
• [July 2024] Our paper Ambiguous Contracts co-authored with Michal Feldman, Daniel Peretz, and Larry Samuelson was accepted to Econometrica.
• [July 2024] I gave a Plenary Talk at the INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Conference at UCLA. Thanks to the organizers for inviting me!
• [June 2024] Very excited that our latest prophet inequality paper “Online Combinatorial Allocation and Auctions with Few Samples” was accepted to FOCS 2024.
• [June 2024] Together with John Horton (MIT) and Yash Kanoria (NYU Stern) I am co-organizing the INFORMS Workshop on Market Design at EC 2024.
• [May 2024] Excited to announce that our paper Mechanism Design for Large Language Models has received the Best Paper Award at WWW 2024. It was also selected as one of the papers under the ‘Highlights Beyond EC’ scheme at EC 2024.
• [May 2024] Two papers accepted to EC 2024, and one to ICML 2024. Looking forward to these conferences.
• [October 2023] Happy to share that our paper Combinatorial Contracts Beyond Gross Substitutes was accepted to SODA 2024
• [September 2023] Delighted that our paper Optimal Auctions through Deep Learning: Advances in Differentiable Economics was accepted for publication in the Journal of the ACM.
• [September 2023] Good news! Our paper Deep Contract Design via Discontinuos Networks was accepted to NeurIPS 2023.

Selected publications

Multi-Agent Combinatorial Contracts
Paul Dütting, Tomer Ezra, Michal Feldman, Thomas Kesselheim
ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA 2025, New Orleans, LA, USA, forthcoming
[arXiv]
Ambiguous Contracts
Paul Dütting, Michal Feldman, Daniel Peretz, Larry Samuelson
Econometrica, ECMA 2024, Vol. 92, No. 6, pp. 1967–1992, November 2024
(Extended abstract in EC 2023)
[pdf | arXiv]
Online Combinatorial Allocations and Auctions with Few Samples
Paul Dütting, Thomas Kesselheim, Brendan Lucier, Rebecca Reiffenhäuser, Sahil Singla
IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2024, Chicago, IL, USA, forthcoming
[arXiv]
Optimal Auctions through Deep Leaning: Advances in Differentiale Economics
Paul Dütting, Zhe Feng, Hari Narasimhan, David C. Parkes, Sai S. Ravindranath
Journal of the ACM, JACM 2024, Vol.71(1), pp. 5:1-5:53, February 2024
(Extended abstract in ICML 2019)
[pdf | arXiv | BibTex]
Multi-Agent Contracts
Paul Dütting, Tomer Ezra, Michal Feldman, Thomas Kesselheim
ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC 2023, Orlando, FL, USA
[pdf | arXiv | BibTex]
Combinatorial Contracts
Paul Dütting, Tomer Ezra, Michal Feldman, Thomas Kesselheim
IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2021, Boulder, CO, USA (virtual)
[pdf | arXiv | BibTex]
Efficient Two-Sided Markets with Limited Information
Paul Dütting, Federico Fusco, Philip Lazos, Stefano Leonardi, Rebecca Reiffenhäuser
ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC 2021, Rome, Italy (virtual)
[pdf | arXiv | BibTex]
An O(log log m) Prophet Inequality for Subadditive Combinatorial Auctions
Paul Dütting, Thomas Kesselheim, Brendan Lucier
IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2020, Durham, NC, USA (virtual)
[pdf | arXiv | ACM SIGecom Exchanges | BibTex]
Prophet Inequalities for I.I.D. Random Variables from an Unknown Distribution
(ACM SIGecom Best Full Paper Award)
Jose Correa, Paul Dütting, Felix Fischer, Kevin Schewior
ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, EC 2019, Phoenix, AZ, USA
[pdf | arXiv | BibTex]
The Complexity of Contracts
Paul Dütting, Tim Roughgarden, Inbal Talgam-Cohen
ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA 2020, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
[pdf | arXiv | BibTex
Simple versus Optimal Contracts
Paul Dütting, Tim Roughgarden, Inbal Talgam-Cohen
ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, EC 2019, Phoenix, AZ, USA
[pdf | arXiv | BibTex]
Prophet Inequalities made Easy: Stochastic Optimization by Pricing Non-Stochastic Inputs
Paul Dütting, Michal Feldman, Thomas Kesselheim, Brendan Lucier
IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2017, Berkeley, CA, USA
[pdf | arXiv | BibTex]

Check out full list of publications.