Spring EconCS 2025 Seminars

Speaker: Yingkai Li (Assistant Professor in Economics at the National University of Singapore) Abstract: In classical mechanism design, the prevailing assumption is that the information structure about agents' types is exogenous. This assumption...

Speaker 1: Ce Li (PhD Candidate in Economics - Boston University) Title: Information Design with Unknown Prior Abstract: Classical information design models (e.g., Bayesian persuasion and cheap talk) require players to have perfect knowledge of the prior...

Speaker: Michiel Bakkar ( Assistant Professor at MIT; Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind) Abstract: Collective deliberation is crucial for resolving complex societal issues, yet traditional methods are slow, difficult to scale, and often struggle to...

Speaker 1: Serena Wang ( Postdoctoral Fellow working with Ariel Procaccia at Harvard) Abstract: Online platforms and regulators face a continuing problem of designing effective evaluation metrics. While tools for collecting and processing data continue to...

Speaker: Yoav Kolumbus ( Assistant Research Professor - Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society at Cornell University) Title: Contracting with a Learning Agent Abstract: Many real-life contractual relations differ completely from the clean...

Speaker: Ana Andreea-Stoica (Research Group Leader - Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tuebingen) Title: Challenges in learning under competition Abstract: In this talk, I will describe technical challenges in learning under competition, with...

Time & Location: Friday, March 14, 1:30pm - 2:30pm at SEC LL 2.221 Speaker: Andreas Haupt (Postdoctoral Fellow - Stanford) Title: If community notes are the answer, what is the question? Abstract: One of the primary challenges in crowdsourced fact...

Speaker: Michael Curry (Assistant Professor at The University of Illinois, Chicago) Title: Truthful aggregation of llms with an application to online advertising Abstract: The next frontier of online advertising is revenue generation from LLM-generated...

Speaker: Sarah Keren (Assistant Professor) at The Taub Faculty of Computer Science at Technion) Title: Risk-Aware Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Modern Energy Networks The rapidly changing architecture of electrical networks, coupled with the...

Time & Location: Friday, February 14, 1:30pm - 2:30pm at SEC LL 2.221 Speaker: Stefano Leonardi (Sapienza University of Rome) Title: Regret Minimization for Repeated First-Price Auction and Bilateral Trade. Abstract: We study regret minimization in...