Constantinos Daskalakis
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Constantinos Daskalakis is an Assistant Professor at MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department and a member of CSAIL. His Ph.D. thesis was awarded the 2008 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. Together with Paul Goldberg and Christos Papadimitriou, they received the 2008 Game Theory and Computer Science Prize for their paper "The Complexity of Computing a Nash Equilibrium."
Research, New England
. And before that he spent four years at UC Berkeley's theory of computation group advised by Christos Papadimitriou
. He did his undergraduate studies in Greece at the National Technical University of Athens
, at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, where he graduated with the highest degree ever (9.98/10).
) for advancing our understanding of behavior in complex networks of interacting individuals, such as those enabled and created by the Internet. His dissertation, entitled “The Complexity of Nash Equilibria,” provides a novel, algorithmic perspective on Game Theory
and the concept of the Nash equilibrium
("The Complexity of Computing a Nash Equilibrium."http://people.csail.mit.edu/costis/journal_ver10.pdf).
Studies
Prior to joining MIT's faculty he was a postdoctoral researcher in Jennifer Chayes's group at MicrosoftMicrosoft
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Research, New England
New England
New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut...
. And before that he spent four years at UC Berkeley's theory of computation group advised by Christos Papadimitriou
Christos Papadimitriou
Christos Harilaos Papadimitriou is a Professor in the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley, United States...
. He did his undergraduate studies in Greece at the National Technical University of Athens
National Technical University of Athens
The National Technical University of Athens , sometimes simply known as Athens Polytechnic, is among the oldest and most prestigious higher education institutions of Greece....
, at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, where he graduated with the highest degree ever (9.98/10).
Awards and honors
Constantinos Daskalakis has won the 2008 Doctoral Dissertation Award from ACM (the Association for Computing MachineryAssociation for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
) for advancing our understanding of behavior in complex networks of interacting individuals, such as those enabled and created by the Internet. His dissertation, entitled “The Complexity of Nash Equilibria,” provides a novel, algorithmic perspective on Game Theory
Game theory
Game theory is a mathematical method for analyzing calculated circumstances, such as in games, where a person’s success is based upon the choices of others...
and the concept of the Nash equilibrium
Nash equilibrium
In game theory, Nash equilibrium is a solution concept of a game involving two or more players, in which each player is assumed to know the equilibrium strategies of the other players, and no player has anything to gain by changing only his own strategy unilaterally...
("The Complexity of Computing a Nash Equilibrium."http://people.csail.mit.edu/costis/journal_ver10.pdf).