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2022 Feb: Congratulations to Keyang for his work "Competition and Inefficiency in Urban Last-Mile Delivery" to appear at AAMAS'22 (link to follow)
2022 Feb: In congestion games, minimizing the Price of Anarchy has undesirable consequences on the Price of Stability, see Rahul's work
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2021 Nov: Starting from November, Aris and I are organising "Frontiers in Economics and Computation - UK" a monthly seminar series on Economics and Computation, Game Theory, Optimisation in a broad sense
2021 Sep: At CDC'21, we are organizing the workshop "Control for Autonomous Cities". Excited about the speakers lineup!
2021 May: In recent work to appear at EC'21, we determined tight hardness of approximation for congestion games and matching polynomial time algorithms
2021 Mar: Our work on optimal taxes in congestion games will appear on ACM Trans. on Economics and Computation
2021 Feb: Congratulations to Rahul for his work accepted at AAMAS'21
2021 Feb: The second part of our work on computing and optimizing the efficiency in distributed systems has been published to IEEE TAC
2021 Jan: Stochasticity and surveillance: how should a robot surveil a region and be unpredictable? Read more about it on Xiaoming's new paper on IEEE TCNS
2021 Jan: Max and I have been awarded the Imperial-TUM Collaboration Fund to warm-start our collaboration
2021 Jan: Our work on Inertial Nash equilibria has been published on IEEE TAC
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2020 Dec: I have been invited to speak at the Dynamics in Social and Economic Networks Workshop, CDC 2020
2020 Dec: I am serving as Program Committee member at IJCAI 2021 (30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence), AAMAS 2021 (20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems), SAGT 2020 (13th Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory)
2020 Aug: How can a team of individuals learn to share a task optimally? A simple "assign and appraise" approach might suffice, see our preprint
2020 June: I have been selected as one of the four finalists for the EECI Best PhD Award for 2019
2020 Mar: We developed resalloc-poa – a package to compute optimal tolls in atomic congestion games – [Github repo]
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2019 Dec: Surprisingly, computing optimal tolls in atomic congestion games is a tractable linear program, see our new preprint
2019 Dec: The first part of our work on computing and optimizing the efficiency in distributed systems has been accepted to IEEE TAC
2019 Nov: I am honored to receive the ETH medal in recognition for an outstanding PhD dissertation – [Picture]
2019 Nov: We posted our work on "Optimal mechanisms for distributed resource-allocation" co-authored with R. Chandan and J. Marden
2019 July: The paper "The scenario approach meets uncertain variational inequalities and game theory" co-authored with M. Campi was accepted to IEEE CDC 2019
2019 July: Our manuscript on Generalized Smoothness - a novel technique to bound the Price of Anarchy - was accepted to IEEE CDC 2019
2019 June: The paper "Computing optimal taxes in atomic congestion games" co-authored with R. Chandan, B. Ferguson, J. Marden was accepted to NetEcon 2019
2019 Mar: Our newly posted work aims at bridging the gap between uncertain game theory, the scenario approach, and uncertain variational inequalities
2019 Feb: I joined UC Santa Barbara as Postdoctoral Fellow advised by Prof. Francesco Bullo
2019 Jan: The Swiss National Science Foundation awarded me the Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship
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2018 Dec: I successfully defended my PhD at ETH Zurich, advised by Prof. John Lygeros – [Slides], [Dissertation]

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