About Me
I'm a postdoctoral researcher in Jennifer Chayes's group at Microsoft Research, New England. In July 2009, I'm joining the faculty at EECS, MIT as an assistant professor and member of CSAIL.
Before moving to Boston, I spent four wonderful years as a theory student at U.C. Berkeley, advised by Christos Papadimitriou. I did my undergraduate studies in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
My research focuses on algorithmic game theory, computational biology and applied probability.
Recent News:
Together with Paul Goldberg and Christos Papadimitriou, we received the first Game Theory and Computer Science Prize for our paper "The Complexity of Computing a Nash Equilibrium." The prize is awarded once every four years at the World Congress of the Game Theory Society. The citation reads in part as follows: "This paper made key conceptual and technical contributions in an illustrious line of work on the complexity of computing Nash equilibrium. It also highlights the necessity of constructing practical algorithms that compute equilibria efficiently on important subclasses of games." Here is a report from the congress by Paul.
Here is a simplified exposition of our article on the Complexity of Nash equilibria.
My Ph.D. thesis is here.
I received the Microsoft Research Fellowship in Honor of Dean A. Richard Newton.
Committees: SODA 2008, EC 2009, SAGT 2009.
Link to academic work.
The Satrapy
What a misfortune, although you are madefor fine and great works
this unjust fate of yours always
denies you encouragement and success;
that base customs should block you;
and pettiness and indifference.
And how terrible the day when you yield
(the day when you give up and yield),
and you leave on foot for Susa,
and you go to the monarch Artaxerxes
who favorably places you in his court,
and offers you satrapies and the like.
And you accept them with despair
these things that you do not want.
Your soul seeks other things, weeps for other things;
the praise of the public and the Sophists,
the hard-won and inestimable Well Done;
the Agora, the Theater, and the Laurels.
How can Artaxerxes give you these,
where will you find these in a satrapy;
and what life can you live without these.
Constantine P. Cavafy (1910)