Konstantinos Daskalakis
BiographyConstantinos (or Costis) Daskalakis will join the EECS Department as an Assistant Professor and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the fall of 2009, while being currently a postdoctoral researcher in nearby Microsoft Research-New England. Costis grew up in Athens, Greece, where he received an undergraduate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. In 2004 he moved to California where he completed his Ph.D. studies in Computer Science at U. C. Berkeley under the supervision of Professor Christos H. Papadimitriou. Costis is interested in Algorithmic Game Theory and Applied Probability, particularly in computational aspects of markets and the Internet, in social networks, and in computational problems in Biology. His research is motivated by two questions: "how does the algorithmic perspective influence Economics, Biology, Physics, and the Social Sciences?" and "how does the study of computational problems arising from areas outside Computer Science transform the Theory of Computation?" The Game Theory Society honored Costis and his collaborators, Paul Goldberg and Christos Papadimitriou, with the first Game Theory and Computer Science Prize for their work on the Computational Complexity of Nash equilibria. Costis was also the recipient of a Best Student Paper Award at the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, and of a Microsoft Research Fellowship in honor of Dean A. Richard Newton.
|
Awards
|
