Scholar
Emmanouil Pountourakis
Google Scholar ID: gWygCaAAAAAJ
Drexel University
Citations & Impact
Citations
284
H-index
10
i10-index
10
Publications
20
Co-authors
14
list available
Contact
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Polynomial-Time Approximation Schemes via Utility Alignment: Unit-Demand Pricing and More (with Robin Bowers, Marius Garbea, and Samuel Taggart, FOCS 2025 to appear)
- Simple Delegated Choice (with Ali Khodabakhsh, and Samuel Taggart, SODA 2024)
- Single Sample Prophet Inequalities via Greedy-Ordered Selection (with Paul Duetting, Matthew Faw, Federico Fusco, Philip Lazos, Stefano Leonardi, Orestis Papadigenopoulos, and Rebecca Reiffenhauser, SODA 2022)
- Optimal Auctions Vs. Anonymous Pricing (with Saeed Alaei, Jason Hartline, Rad Niazadeh, and Yang Yuan, GEB 2019, preliminary version appeared at FOCS 2015)
- Repeated sales with multiple strategic buyers (with Nicole Immorlica, Brendan Lucier and Samuel Taggart, EC 2017)
Research Experience
- Currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University. Prior to joining Drexel, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Wireless Network and Communications Group at the University of Texas at Austin and a research fellow for the Spring 2018 Real Time Decision Making program at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing.
Education
- Earned his PhD in 2017 from the Theory group at Northwestern University, advised by Nicole Immorlica.
Background
- Has a broad interest in the intersection of theoretical computer science, game theory, and economics. Current research focuses on algorithmic mechanism design, learning in games, and optimal stopping. Also interested in applications of algorithmic game theory to energy markets and cybersecurity.
Miscellany
- Organizing the Drexel CS Theory Reading Group with Vasilis Gkatzelis and Shahin Jabbari.
