About me

I am a Shibulal Family Career Development Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences at Boston University, am affiliated with Computer Science, and am a member of the Algorithms & Theory group.

My research interests are primarily in algorithmic mechanism design and approximation algorithms, particularly in using these techniques to improve access to rights and opportunities or mitigate global harms. As part of this agenda, I originally co-founded the Mechanism Design for Social Good initiative. I am also interested in the intersection of these topics with healthcare, climate change, law, AI Ethics, and more, as well as more foundational topics such as revenue maximization, and varied behavioral and informational assumptions. See my publications on my research page or information for prospective PhD students.

Before joining Boston University, I was an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow and a Data Science Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University hosted by Tim Roughgarden.

I received my PhD in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where I was very fortunate to be advised by Anna Karlin. During my PhD, I was very generously supported by a 2017-19 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship and a 2016-17 Google Anita Borg Scholarship.

Before that, I attended Oberlin College where I received a B.A. in Mathematics and minored in Computer Science. I also studied at Budapest Semesters in Mathematics. My Curriculum Vitae can be found here.


Students: The best part of an academic job is working with students. This currently includes:

• Freddy Reiber (PhD student)
• Thodoris Tsilivis (PhD student)

• Our paper "A Constant Approximation for Private Interdependent Valuations" with Alon Eden, Michal Feldman, Simon Mauras, and Divya Mohan will appear in FOCS 2023!
• I spoke at the SLMath/MSRI Program on the Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design in September! Both their Connections Workshop Sept 7-8 and their Introductory Workshop Sept 11-15. [ talk 1 | talk 2 ]
• I spoke on "Mechanism Design: Toward a Positive Social Impact" at the EC 2023 Gender Inclusion Workshop in July.
• I spoke at ALGA 2023 in June on "A Constant Approximation for Private Interdependent Valuations."
• I gave a talk at the DIMACS Workshop on Algorithm and Mechanism Design for Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals in May on "Where Mechanism Design May Be Helpful."
• I attended the Bellairs Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems in March and spoke about open problems for matroid prophet inequalities.
• Our journal version of Combinatorial Auctions with Interdependent Valuations: SOS to the Rescue was published in MOR.
• I spoke at the 2022 CIREQ Microeconomic Theory Conference.
• I am thrilled to be once again be on the organizing team for the 3rd ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO '23)!
• I wrote an extremely detailed blog post on my advice for and experience with the academic job market.
• New paper on Private Interdependent Valuations with Alon Eden and Shuran Zheng accepted to SODA '22!
• I was awarded the 2021-24 Shibulal Family Career Development Professorship! Thank you to the Shibulal Family, the Faculty of CDS, and BU!
• I started a blog aggregating information about key events and responsibilities in academia.