Summary

The Workshop on Algorithms for Learning and Economics (WALE) brings together researchers from academia and industrial research working in the design of algorithms for economics and machine learning. The topics include: mechanism design, auctions design, market design as well as econometrics and statistical inference in the presence of malicious or strategic behaviors. The discussion will involve both the design of novel algorithms as well as computational limitations. There is a technical program of introductory talks given by pioneers in different areas followed by talks by participants of the workshop. In addition, there will be ample time for informal discussion and collaboration.

Details

WALE stands for Workshop on Algorithms for Learning and Economics. It was previously organized in 2022 and 2019 and is a successor to the GREAT workshop organized in past years (see GREAT11, GREAT14, GREAT17).

 

It will take place on the beautiful island of Kefalonia which is the largest of the Ionian islands and is accessible by plane.

The workshop will last for 5 days with each day having a different theme. The tentative topics and daily schedule are listed below.

Venue

The main conference venue is ARGILE RESORT & SPA.

Schedule (June 17-21, 2024)

Tentative Participants

Abheek Ghosh (University of Oxford) Abhishek Shetty (Berkeley) Aikaterini Mamali (Yale) Aldo Pacchiano (Boston University) Alex Slivkins (MSR) Alexandros Hollender (Oxford) Alkis Kalavasis (Yale University) Alkmini Sgouritsa (AUEB) Alon Eden (HUJI) Amin Karbasi (Yale and Google) Amin Saberi (Stanford) Amos Fiat (Tel Aviv University) Ana-Andreea Stoica (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems) Andre Wibisono (Yale University) Andres Cristi (Center for Mathematical Modeling, Universidad de Chile) Andrew Ilyas (MIT) Apostolis Tsorvantzis (NTUA / Archimedes AI) Argyrios Deligkas (Royal Holloway University of London) Argyris Mouzakis (University of Waterloo) Ariel Schvartzman (Google Research) Aris Filos-Ratsikas (Liverpool) Arnab Maiti (U Washington) Artem Tsikiridis (CWI) Aviv Yaish (HUJI) Bailey Flanigan (CMU) Balasubramanian Sivan (Google) Carmine Ventre (King's College) Chara Podimata (MIT) Charalampos Kokkalis (University of Edinburgh) Chidozie Onyeze (Cornell) Clement Canonne (U Sydney) Costis Daskalakis (MIT) Dimitris Fotakis (NTUA) Divyarthi Mohan (Tel Aviv University) Ekaterina Fedorova (University of Pennsylvania) Eleni Batziou (University of Liverpool) Elias Koutsoupias (Oxford) Emily Ryu (Cornell University) Eric Zhao (UC Berkeley) Eric Mazumdar (Caltech) Eva Tardos (Cornell) Faidra Monachou (Stanford) Federico Fusco (Sapienza University of Rome) Gabriele Farina (MIT EECS) Gautam Kamath (Waterloo) Georgios Birmpas (University of Liverpool) Georgios Piliouras (Google DeepMind / SUTD) Giannis Fikioris (Cornell) Giorgos Christodoulou (AUT) Giorgos Stamou (NTUA) Guido Schaefer (CWI & University of Amsterdam) Hedyeh Beyhaghi (CMU) Hoda Heidari (CMU) Hu Fu (SUFE) Ilan Cohen (Bar Ilan) Ilias Diakonikolas (UW Madison) Inbal Talgam-Cohen (Tel Aviv University) Ioannis Caragiannis (Aarhus) Ioannis Panageas (UC Irvine) Jelena Diakonikolas (UW Madison) Jess Sorrell (UPenn) Jon Schneider (Google) Juba Ziani (Georgia Tech) Kate Donahue (Cornell) Katerina Sotiraki (Yale CS) Kevin Leyton Brown (UBC) Korinna Frangias (Berkeley) Kostas Zampetakis (University of Warwick) Kunhe Yang (UC Berkeley) Lily Xu (Harvard) Linda Cai (Princeton) Mahsa Derakhshan (Northeastern) Marco Scarsini (Luiss University) Matteo Russo (Sapienza University) Matthew vonAllmen (Northwestern) Maxwell Fishelson (MIT) Michal Feldman (Tel Aviv University) Mihalis Yannakakis (Columbia) Mingchen Ma (UW Madison) Moshe Babaioff (HUJI) Narun Raman (UBC) Natalie Collina (UPenn) Nika Haghtalab (UC Berkeley) Nikolas Patris (UC Irvine) Nir Rosenfeld (Technion) Nivasini Ananthakrishnan (Berkeley) Panagiotis Patsilinakos (NTUA) Panayotis Mertikopoulos (CNRS) Paul Goldberg (Oxford) Pinyan Lu (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics) Piotr Krysta (Augusta University, GA, (USA) & University of Liverpool (UK)) Pravesh Kothari (Princeton University) Rad Niazadeh (U Chicago) Rahul Savani (Liverpool) Rashida Hakim (Columbia) Rebecca Reiffenhäuser (U Amsterdam) Riccardo Colini Baldeschi (Central Applied Science, Meta) Richard Cole (NYU) Rui Yao (MIT) Ruta Mehta (UIUC) Sam Taggart (Oberlin) Sarah Cen (MIT EECS) Serena Wang (UC Berkeley) Shipra Agrawal (Columbia) Shiri Ron (Weizmann) Shuran Zheng (Tsinghua University) Siddhartha Banerjee (Cornell) Simina Branzei (Purdue) Simon Mauras (INRIA) Sobhan Mohammadpour (MIT) Soheil Behnezhad (Northeastern) Stavros Ioannidis (King's College London) Stefano Leonardi (Sapienza Università di Roma) Stratis Skoulakis (EPFL) Sumegha Garg (Rutgers) Tal Alon (Technion) Talya Eden (Bar Ilan) Taylor Lundy (UBC) Themis Gouleakis (NUS) Themis Melissourgos (Essex) Thodoris Tsilivis (Boston University) Thomas Archbold (King's College London) Tomer Ezra (Sapienza University) Vaggos Chatziafratis (UC Santa Cruz) Vangelis Markakis (AUEB) Vardis Kandiros (MIT) Vasilis Gkatzelis (Drexel) Vijay Vazirani (UC Irvine) Xintong Wang (Rutgers) Xinyan Hu (Berkeley) Xizhi Tan (Drexel) Yair Zick (UMass Amherst) Yang Cai (Yale University) Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri (UC Berkeley) Yiannis Giannakopoulos (University of Glasgow) Yifeng Teng (Google) Yingkai Li (Yale) Yoav Gal Tzur (TAU) Yoav Kolombus (Cornell) Yotam Gafni (Weizmann Institute) Yuqing Kong (Peking U) Yuval Dagan (Berkeley)

Organization

Kira Goldner, Natalia Kotsani, Thanasis Lianeas, Christos Tzamos and Manolis Zampetakis