Georgios PiliourasAssociate Professor
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Talks, Service and News
- Stefanos Leonardos has joined King's College London as assistant professor. James P. Bailey has joined RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) as assistant professor. Congratulations to both!
- The slides for my 4 part tutorial on Learning in Games at Simons Institute can be found here Slides. The videos to the 4 parts can are here. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
- Best paper award runner-up for joint paper with Aleksander Czechowski at AAMAS 2022.
- Three papers accepted @ ICLR 2022.
- Three papers accepted @ AAMAS 2022.
- One current and one former group members are on the job market this year. Stefanos Leonardos (co-recipient of AAAI'21 best paper award amongst other accolades) and James P. Bailey (co-recipient of AAMAS'19 best paper award nomination amongst other accolades). Check them out!
- YouTube video/talk of our AAAI best paper work given by Stefanos Leonardos @ State-of-the-Art AI Research channel.
- Program co-chair along with Xiaotie Deng of the Blockchain Track in the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS).
- Three papers (including one spotlight award) accepted @ NeurIPS 2021.
- Two papers accepted @ IEEE Blockchain 2021 including our new paper on Ethereum’s EIP-1559.
- Four papers accepted @ ICML 2021.
- Paper accepted @ ACM AFT 2021. Link to our paper on Ethereum’s EIP-1559.
- Best paper award @ IEEE-TEM for our paper “PREStO: A Systematic Framework for Blockchain Consensus Protocols” with Stefanos Leonardos and Daniel Reijsbergen.
- Area Chair @ NeurIPS 2021.
- Check out our new paper on the dynamics of the EIP-1559 Ethereum fee market.
- Best paper award for joint paper with Stefanos Leonardos at AAAI 2021.
- Invited talk @ Challenges and Opportunities for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (COMARL), Monday March 22, 2021 (online).
- Invited talk @ NYCAC 20-21 (The New York Colloquium on Algorithms and Complexity), Friday, March 19, 2021 (online).
- Two papers accepted @ AAAI 2021.
- My graduating PhD student Sai Ganesh Nagarajan joins the EPFL CS theory group as a postdoc under Prof. Ola Svensson.
- Four papers (including one spotlight talk) accepted @ NeurIPS 2020.
- Two papers accepted @ WINE 2020.
- Postdoc Yun Kuen (Marco) Cheung joins Royal Holloway, University of London as assistant professor.
- Papers accepted @ ICML 2020 and COLT 2020.
- Invited Talk @ NeurIPS workshop on games and learning, (online), December 2020.
- Invited Talk @ Second Symposium on Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems, The Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada (online) September 21 - 25, 2020.
- Invited Talk @ 7th Workshop on Stochastic Methods in Game Theory, Ettore Majorana Centre, Erice July 1-8, 2020. (postponed)
- Invited Talk @ Data, Learning and Inference (DALI) 2020, Costa d'en Blanes, Balearic Islands, Spain, April 13-16, 2020. (postponed)
- Invited Talk @ Challenges and Opportunities for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (COMARL), AAAI 2020, Stanford University, USA, March 23-25, 2020. (postponed)
- Co-organizing Workshop on New Tools for Markets: Information Design and Blockchains, Shonan Village Center, Japan, March 16 - 19, 2020. (postponed)
- My former PhD student Barnabé Monnot joined the Ethereum Foundation as a research scientist (Robust Incentives Group).
- Papers accepted @ ICLR 2020 and AAMAS 2020.
- Five papers (including two spotlight talks) accepted @ NeurIPS 2019.
- Paper accepted @ WINE 2019.
- Invited Talk @ Games, Dynamics and Optimization (GDO2020), Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, February 24 - 26, 2020.
- Postdoc James P. Bailey joins Texas A&M, ISyE Dept. as assistant professor.
- Three day tutorial on Cryptocurrencies and AI @ LUISS visiting International Chair @ Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Rome Italy, May 27-29, 2019.
- Read the first game theoretic analysis of Ethereum's Casper FFG protocol in joint work with Vitalik Buterin, Daniel Reijsbergen and Stefanos Leonardos.
- Best paper award for joint paper with Stefanos Leonardos and Daniel Reijsbergen at IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), 2019.
- Best paper award for joint paper with Nikos Leonardos and Stefanos Leonardos at International Conference on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy (MARBLE) 2019.
- Best paper award nomination for joint paper with James P. Bailey at Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2019.
- Papers accepted @ AAMAS (May 13-17) 2019, ICML (June 10-15) 2019, COLT (June 25-28) 2019.
- Invited Tutorial @ AI Summer School, Singapore, 22-26 July 2019.
- Invited Tutorial @ Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT), Athens, Greece, September 30th, 2019.
- Invited @ Collective Crypto: Exploring the Role of Collective Effects in Crypto Network & Token Design, Santa Fe Institute (SFI), June 12-14, 2019.
- Recent and upcoming program committees: NeurIPS 2019, ICML 2019, EC 2019, SAGT 2019, WINE 2019, ACML 2019, ISAAC 2019, IEEE Blockchain 2019, INFOCOM 2019 Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains for Distributed Systems (CryBlock 2019).
- Invited Talk @ International Conference on Continuous Optimization, (ICCOPT), Technical University (TU) of Berlin, August 3-8, 2019.
- Co-organizing @ 20 Years of the Price of Anarchy, Chania, Greece July 2-5, 2019.
- Two papers accepted @ International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), New Orleans, May 6-9, 2019.
- Invited Talk @ KAUST-MBSC Workshop on Game Theory, April 28-29, 2019.
- Invited Talk @ DeepMind, Paris, April 18, 2019.
- Invited Talk @ Workshop on Network, Population and Congestion Games, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, April 16-17, 2019.
- Invited Talk @ Technical University of Munich (TUM), March 13, 2019.
- Invited Talk @ AAAI-19 Workshop on Reinforcement Learning in Games, Honolulu, US, January 28th, 2019.
- Invited Talk @ Symposium on Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems, London, UK, February 11-13, 2019.
- Research Stay @ DeepMind, London, UK, Fall 2018.
- LUISS visiting International Chair @ Kolmogorov meets Turing Workshop, Rome Italy, November 23, 2018.
- Invited Talk @ Santa Fe Institute (SFI), Santa Fe, NM, November 9, 2018.
- Happy to co-announce the creation of the CBC Casper family of Consensus Protocols @ Ethereum DevCon4. All media inquiries @ Vlad Zamfir.
- Invited Talk @ Ethereum DevCon4, Prague, Czech Republic, October 30th, 2018.
- New Postdoc: We welcome Yun Kuen (Marco) Cheung, PhD in Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University to SUTD.
- Invited Talk @ Blockchain Workshop, Stanford, CA, August 10, 2018.
- Talk by PhD student Sai Ganesh Nagarajan @ Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Stockholm, Sweden, July 11-13, 2018.
- Invited Talk @ Santa Fe Institute (SFI), Santa Fe, NM, June 25, 2018.
- Co-organized @ Blockchain Workshop (SAGT), Beijing, China, September 14, 2018.
- Talk by PostDoc James Bailey @ ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'18), Cornell, June 18, 2018.
- Program Committee CryptoEconomics Security Conference, Berkeley, CA, October 15-16, 2018.
- Program Committee Economics, Monetization, and Online Markets track of The Web Conference 2019, San Francisco, CA, May 13-17, 2019.
- Program Committee Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE), Oxford, UK, December 15-17, 2018.
- Tutorial on Cryptocurrencies @ ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'18) with Jacob Leshno, Arvind Narayanan, Alexandros Psomas and Matt Weinberg, Cornell, NY, June 18, 2018.
- Invited Talk @ Paris Symposium on Game Theory, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France, June 11-15, 2018.
- Invited Talk @ NUS, Singapore, April 23, 2018.
- RChain Developer Conference, Boulder, CO, April 14-18, 2018.
- Invited Talk @ TSIMF Workshop on Algorithmic Game Theory and Internet Economics, Sanya, Hainan, China, March 26-30, 2018.
- Invited Talk @ Internal Ethereum Sharding Research Workshop, Taipei, Taiwan, March 19-21, 2018.
- New Postdoc: We welcome Xiao Wang, Math PhD (Differential geometry), SUNY Buffalo to SUTD.
- Invited Talk @ Asia-Pacific Ethereum Community Meetup, Bangkok, Thailand, February 25, 2018.
- Invited Talk @ Institute of Physics Singapore (IPS) Meeting, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, NTU, Singapore, March 7-9, 2018.
- Talk by PhD student Tushar Vaidya @ Institute of Physics Singapore (IPS) Meeting, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, NTU, Singapore, March 7-9, 2018.
- Talk by PostDoc Thiparat Chotibut @ American Physical Society Meeting, Los Angeles, California, March 5-9, 2018.
- Editor of the Journal of Dynamics and Games. JDG is a publication of the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
- Program Committee ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'18), Cornell, June 18-22, 2018.
- Talk @ Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS), MIT, January 11-14, 2018.
- Talk @ ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), New Orleans, Louisiana, January 7-10, 2018.
- Talk by PhD student Barnabé Monnot @ Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, December 17-20, 2017.
- Singapore NRF Fellowship 2018.
- New Postdoc: We welcome James Bailey, Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization PhD, ISyE Georgia Tech to SUTD.
- Postdoc Ioannis Panageas joins Costis Daskalakis @ MIT.
- Spotlight Paper @ Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Long Beach, CA, December 4-9 2017.
- Program Committee @ Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT 2018), Beijing, China, 2018.
- Program Committee Web Conference 2018 (WWW'18), Lyon, France, April 23-27, 2018.
- Program Committee AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), New Orleans, Louisiana, February 2-7, 2018.
- Program Committee CryptoEconomics Security Conference, Berkeley, CA, October 2-4, 2017.
- Invited Talk @ Greece Economic and Algorithmic Theory (GREAT) Week, Ikaria, Greece, July 24-28.
- Invited Talk @ Systems Engineering Seminar on Analytics, Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES), May 26, 2017.
- Reunion workshop for the program ``Economics and Computation'' @ Simons Institute, UC Berkeley, April 27-28, 2017.
- Program Committee ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'17), MIT, June 26-30, 2017.
- Invited @ AI Safety and Blockchain at the Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford, UK, December 16-17. 2016.
- Invited Talk @ 6th Workshop on Stochastic Methods in Game Theory, Centro Ettore Majorana, Erice, Sicily, 5-13 May 2017.
- Talk @ Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS), Berkeley, CA, 9-11 January, 2017.
- Invited Talk @ AI in Asia, Hong Kong, 21 November, 2016.
- Hosting Stefan Siegmund @ SUTD, March 15-22, 2017.
- Program Committee, World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Perth, Australia, April 3-7, 2017.
- Hosting Christos Papadimitriou @ SUTD, December 19-20, 2016.
- Program Committee, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, San Francisco, CA, February 4-9, 2017.
- Program Committee, Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS), Berkeley, CA, 9-11 January, 2017.
- Program Committee, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Barcelona, Spain, 5-10 December, 2016.
- Program Committee, Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE), (CWI) Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 11-14, 2016.
- Talk @ ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC '16), Maastricht, Netherlands, July 24-28, 2016.
- PhD Dissertation Committee, Ioannis Panageas' PhD Dissertation Defense (GaTech), Atlanta, GA, July 22, 2016.
- Program Committee, Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT), Liverpool, UK, September 19-21, 2016.
- Invited Talk @ Theory Day in Taiwan, National Tsing Hua University, HsinChu, Taiwan, May 17, 2016.
- UC Berkeley visit, May 8-14, 2016.
- Invited @ Lorenz Center Workshop Game Theory and Evolutionary Biology: Exploring Novel Links, Leiden, Netherlands, April 18-22, 2016.
- Talk @ Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS '16), Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 14-16, 2016.
- Invited Talk @ Schloss Dagstuhl Seminar, Evolution and Computing, Germany, January 4-8, 2016.
- Invited Talk @ National Technical University of Athens, Greece, December 28th, 2015.
- Invited Talk @ 3rd Hausdorff Trimester Program 2015 - Combinatorial Optimization, Hausdorff Research Institute, Bonn, Germany, December 14-18, 2015.
- Invited Talk @ Facebook, Palo Alto, CA, December 7th, 2015.
- Invited Talk @ Stochastic Methods in Game Theory, NUS, Singapore, November 16-20,2015.
- Invited Talk @ EPFL CS Theory Seminar, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 2, 2015.
- Talk @ Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT'15), Max Planck Institute, Germany, September 28-30, 2015.
- Invited Talk @ Econ seminar, NUS, Singapore, August 11, 2015.
- Program Committee, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Phoenix, Arizona USA, February 12-17, 2016.
- Program Committee, Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE), (CWI) Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 9-12, 2015.
- Simons Fellow, Economics and Computation, Berkeley, CA, Fall semester, 2015.