Scholar
aleck johnsen
Google Scholar ID: MHEYCoIAAAAJ
PhD Candidate, Northwestern University
Citations & Impact
Citations
133
H-index
6
i10-index
4
Publications
15
Co-authors
4
list available
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published multiple papers, including 'Benchmark Design and Prior Independent Optimization', 'Mechanisms for a No-Regret Agent: Beyond the Common Prior', 'Inference from Auction Prices', etc.; involved in several research projects, such as 'Bias-Variance Games' with Jason Hartline and others.
Research Experience
- Served as a teaching assistant at Northwestern University, teaching courses such as Data Structures and Data Management; worked at Booking.com, responsible for the instrumentation of ranking mechanisms.
Education
- Graduated from Northwestern University in September 2021 with a Ph.D. in Computer Science, advisor Jason Hartline; graduated from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in December 2003 with a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.S. in Civil Engineering (Transportation).
Background
- Research interests include mechanism design, auction theory, econometric inference in auctions, game theory, information design, and persuasion. In computer science, focuses on robust mechanism design, algorithmic game theory, online algorithms, adversary algorithms, and the theory of data science.
