WALE 2022

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 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 Naxos which is the largest island of Cyclades and it 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.

 

Sched­ule (June 13-17, 2022)

Talks Location: Ursulines School & Merchant Academy  (map)

Dellaroka Street, Kastro

 

Organizer: Panayotis Metrikopoulos



  • 02:30 p.m.
       Buses start from Aegean Land Hotel to Ursulines School

  • 03:00 p.m.
        Yang Cai
        Costis Daskalakis
        Manolis Vlatakis

    -  04:30 p.m. Coffee break 

  • 04:45 p.m.
       Spotlight talks from students and postdocs.

    - 06:00 p.m. Walk around the main city of Naxos

  • 10:30 p.m.
        Buses start from main city to Aegean Land Hotel

Talks Location: Aegean Land Hotel

Plaka Beach, Plaka


Organizers: Ellen VitercikYannai Gonczarowski

 

 

  • 11:30 a.m.
       Clayton Thomas
       Michal Feldman
       Jason Hartline
       Yang Cai
       Chamsi Hssaine

- 01:00 p.m. Light lunch break & Poster session 1

  • 01:30 p.m.
        Simina Brânzei
        Moshe Babaioff
        Noam Nisan
        Eric Balkanski
        Vangelis Markakis

    - 04:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Trip around the island
       Starting point: Aegean Land Hotel

Talks Location: Aegean Land Hotel

Plaka Beach, Plaka

 

Organizers: Hamsa BastaniChara Podimata

 

  • 11:30 a.m.
        Hamsa Bastani
        Chara Podimata
        Ellen Vitercik

- 01:00 p.m. Light lunch break & Poster session 2

 

  • 01:30 p.m. 
        Jess Sorell
        Meena Jagadeesan
        Sumegha Garg
        Sean Sinclair
        Sam Taggart
        Andreas Haupt

- 08:00 p.m. Wale Dinner
  Location: Paradiso Taverna (map)

Talks Location: Aegean Land Hotel

Plaka Beach, Plaka

 

Organizers: Nika Haghtalab , Thodoris Lykouris

 

  • 11:30 a.m.
         Nika Haghtalab
         Thodoris Lykouris

- 01:00 p.m. Light lunch break & Poster session 3

 

  • 01:30 p.m.
         Siddhartha Banerjee
         Meena Jagadeesan
         Rad Niazaden

- 10:00 p.m. Music
  Location: on the beach close to Aegean Land Hotel

Talks Location: Aegean Land Hotel

Plaka Beach, Plaka

 

Organizers: Kira Goldner, Christos Tzamos, and Manolis Zampetakis

 

  • 11:30 a.m.
         Surbhi Goel
         Kevin Leyton-Brown
         Stratis Ioannidis
         Short announcement by Bernhard von Stengel 

    - 01:00 p.m. Light lunch break

  • 01:30 p.m.
         Shaddin Dughmi
         Bo Waggoner
         Nika Haghtalab
         

Confirmed Participants

Alexandros Hollender (Oxford)
Alexandros Tsigonias-Dimitriadis (TUM)
Ali Vakilian (TTIC)
Alkis Kalavasis (NTUA)
Andrea Celli (Bocconi)
Andreas Haupt (MIT)
Argyris Oikonomou (Yale)
Ariel Schvartzman (Rutgers)
Ariel Shaulker (Weizmann)
Aris Pagourtzis (NTUA)
Artem Tsikiridis (AUEB)
Barna Saha (UCSD)
Bernhard von Stengel (LSE)
Bhaskar Chaudhury (UIUC)
Bo Waggoner (U Colorado)
Carmine Ventre (King’s College)
Chamsi Hssaine (Cornell)
Chara Podimata (Harvard University)
Christos Tzamos (UW Madison)
Clay Thomas (Princeton)
Costis Daskalakis (MIT)
Daniel Schoepflin (Drexel)
Dimitris Fotakis (NTUA)
Divyarthi Mohan (Tel Aviv University)
Eden Saig (Technion)
Ellen Vitercik (Stanford/Berkeley)
Eric Balkanski (Columbia)
Federico Fusco (Sapienza University)
Francis Durand (AUEB)
Gabriele Farina (CMU)
Georgios Birmpas (Sapienza University)
Georgios Papasotiropoulos (AUEB)
Giannis Fikioris (Cornell)
Giorgos Christodoulou (AUT)
Giorgos Stamou (NTUA)
Guido Schaefer (CWI)
Hamsa Bastani (UPenn)
Ioannis Caragiannis (Aarhus)
Jason Hartline (Northwestern)
Jess Sorrell (UCSD)
Jordan Lekeufack-Sopze (UC Berkeley)
Katerina Sotiraki (UC Berkeley)
Kevin Leyton Brown (UBC)
Kira Goldner (Boston University)
Konstantin Zabarnyi (Technion)
Kostas Zampetakis (UCSC)
Kyriakos Axiotis (MIT)
Kyriaki Frangias (UC Berkeley)
Linda Cai (Princeton)
Mahsa Dalirrooyfard (LSE)
Mahsa Derakhshan (UC Berkeley)
Manolis Zampetakis (UC Berkeley)
Manolis Vlatakis (Columbia)
Matteo Russo (Sapienza University) 
Max Fishelson (MIT)

Maxim Sviridenko (Yahoo!)
Meena Jagadeesan (UC Berkeley)
Michal Feldman (Tel Aviv University)
Mingchen Ma (UW Madison)
Mohammad Mahdian (Google)
Moshe Babaioff (MSR)
Natalia Kotsani (NTUA)
Neil Newman (UBC)
Nicos Protopapas (U. of Southampton)
Nika Haghtalab (UC Berkeley)
Nishanth Dikkala (Google)
Noam Nisan (HUJI)
Ophir Friedler (Outbrain)
Panagiotis Tsamopoulos (AUEB)
Panayotis Patsilinakos (NTUA)
Panayotis Mertikopoulos (CNRS)
Philipos Lazos (IOHK)
Pravesh Kothari (CMU)
Rad Niazadeh (U Chicago)
Rahul Savani (Liverpool)
Riccardo Baldeschi (Facebook)
Ron Kupfer (Harvard University)
Sahar Jahani (LSE)
Sam Taggart (Oberlin)
Sean Sinclair (Cornell)
Shaddin Dughmi (USC)
Shiri Ron (Weizmann)
Siddhartha Banerjee (Cornell)
Simina Branzei (Purdue)
Simon Mauras (Tel Aviv University)
Sophie Klumper (CWI)
Stathis Zachos (NTUA)
Stavros Ioannidis (King’s College)
Stephen McAleer (CMU)
Stratis Ioannidis (Northeastern)
Stratis Skoulakis (EPFL)
Sumegha Garg (Harvard University)
Surbhi Goel (MSR NYC)
Tasos Kyrillidis (Rice University)
Taylor Lundy (UBC)
Thanasis Lianeas (NTUA)
Themis Gouleakis (NUS)
Themis Melissourgos (Essex)
Thodoris Lykouris (MIT)
Thomas Archbold (King’s College)
Tomer Ezra (Sapienza University)
Vangelis Markakis (AUEB)
Vardis Kandiros (MIT)
Yang Cai (Yale University)
Yannai Gonczarowski (Harvard University)
Yifan Wu (Northwestern)
Yoav Kolumbus (HUJI)
Yuval Dagan (MIT)

Organization

Kira Goldner (Boston University), Christos Tzamos (UW Madison), and Manolis Zampetakis (UC Berkeley)

 

Local Committee

Natalia Kotsani (NTUA) and Thanasis Lianeas (NTUA)

Sponsors