Aris Filos-Ratsikas

Lecturer || Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science || School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

• About me
• Publications
• Experience
• Teaching

Contact Information

School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

Office: 507, Informatics Forum

10 Crichton St, Newington, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

E-mail: Aris.Filos-Ratsikased.ac.uk

Awards

1. International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2022. Best Senior Program Committee Member.
2. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2018. Outstanding Program Committee member.
3. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2017. Outstanding Program Committee member.
4. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2016. Outstanding Program Committee member.

Program (co-)Chair

1. International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT), 2023.

Area Chair

1. ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC), 2023.

Senior Program Committee Member

1. International Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE), 2023, 2022.
2. International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2022.
3. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2020.

Program Committee Member

1. ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC) 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018.
2. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016.
3. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015.
4. The Web Conference (WWW) 2021, 2020, 2019.
5. International Conference on Antonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2018 and 2017.
6. International Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE) 2021, 2019 and 2018.
7. International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT) 2021 and 2020.
8. International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT) 2021.
9. The Distributed Artificial Intelligence Conference (DAI) 2019.
10. International Workshop on Computational Social Choice (COMSOC) 2018.

Reviewing

Journals: SIAM Journal on Computing (SCICOMP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), Games and Economic Behavior (GEB), Mathematical Programming B (MathProg), Mathematics of Operations Research (MOR), ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation (TEAC), Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (JAAMAS), Theory of Computing Systems (TOCS), Journal of Computer and System Sciences (TCSS), Information and Computation (IC), Algorithmica and Annals of Mathematics, and Artificial Intelligence (AMAI).

Conferences: ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC), IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), the Symposium of Discrete Algorithms (SODA), the Computational Complexity Conference (CCC), the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP), the Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS), the Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS), the European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), the International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS), the ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, the International Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE), the International Symposium of Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT), and the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS).

Seminar and Workshop Organization

1. Frontiers in Economics and Computation - UK (ECUK) Seminar Series
   Virtual Seminar, ongoing.
2. Workshop on Recent Advances on Total Search Problems
   co-located with ICALP 2022, Paris, France, July 2022, scheduled.
3. Workshop on Fair Resource Allocation: Concepts, Algorithms and Complexity
   co-located with EC 2021, Virtual Workshop, July 2021.
4. Workshop on the Distortion and Information-Efficiency Tradeoffs
   co-located with EC 2020, Virtual Workshop, July 2020.
5. Workshop on Theoretical Aspects of Fairness
   co-located with ICALP 2019, Patras, Greece, July 2019.
6. Indoor Games: 1st UK Workshop on Algorithmic Game Theory and Mechanism Design
   Oxford University, March 2018.

Long-term Academic Visits

September 2014 - December 2014. Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Hosted by Elias Koutsoupias.

April 2014 - July 2014. Insitute of Interdisciplinary Information Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Hosted by Andrew Chi-Chih Yao.

Talks and Seminars

1. The Distortion of Distributed Metric Social Choice - New Trends and Beyond Worst-case Analysis on Mechanism Design and Approximation Algorithms, Virtual Seminar, February 2022.
2. On the Complexity of Consensus-Halving and Necklace Splitting - The New York Colloquium on Algorithms and Complexity, Virtual Seminar, December 2021.
3. On the Complexity of Consensus-Halving and Necklace Splitting - Joint Purdue University and the University of Michigan Theory Seminar, Virtual Seminar, October 2021.
4. Making Good Decisions under Limited Information: Distortion-Information Tradeoffs in Social Choice and Matching - Royal Holloway University of London Departmental Seminar, Virtual Seminar, September 2021.
5. On the Complexity of Equilibrium Computation in First-Price Auctions - Athens Colloquium on Algorithms and Complexity, Virtual Seminar, August 2021.
6. Distortion-Information Tradeoffs in Social Choice and Matching via Queries - International Seminar Series on Social Choice (COMSOC), Virtual Seminar, February 2021.
7. The Complexity of Necklace Splitting, Consensus-Halving and Discrete Ham Sandwich - LA Combinatorics and Complexity Seminar, Virtual Seminar, October 2020.
8. The Distortion of Distributed Voting and Facility Location - Drexel Computer Science Theory Reading Group, Virtual Seminar, September 2020.
9. Peeking Behind the Ordinal Curtain: Improving Distortion via Cardinal Queries - University of Oxford Algorithms Seminar, Oxford, United Kingdom, January 2020.
10. The Pareto Frontier of Inefficiency in Mechanism Design - The Twenty Years of the Price of Anarchy Workshop, Chania, Greece, July 2019.
11. Natural PPA-complete problems: Necklace Splitting, Consensus Halving and Discrete Ham Sandwich - Research Seminar, TU Munich, April 2019.
12. Necklace Splitting and "Natural" PPA-Complete Problems - The Total Functions in Computation, Communication and Cryptography Workshop, at the IEEE Symposium of Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS '18), Paris, France, October 2018.
13. Walrasian Dynamics in Multi-unit Markets - Departmental Seminar, University of Patras, December 2017.
14. On the Computational Complexity of Consensus Halving and Necklace Splitting - Theory Talk, Aarhus University, August 2017.
15. Envy-Free Pricing in Multi-unit Markets - Theory Talk, University of Patras, June 2016.
16. Truthful Schemes for Approximate Social Welfare Maximization - Theory Talk, University of Patras, May 2015.
17. Truthful Approximations to Range Voting - Algorithms Seminar, University of Oxford, November 2014.
18. Truthful Approximations to Range Voting - Departmental Seminar, University of Liverpool, November 2014.
19. Introduction to Algorithmic Mechanism Design - Seminar, IIIS, Tsinghua University, June 2014.
20. Truthful Approximations to Range Voting - China Theory Week Workshop, Aarhus University, August 2013.
21. Truthful Approximations to Range Voting - New Trends in Mechanism Design II Workshop, Aarhus University, June 2013.
22. An Improved 2-agent Kidney Exchange Mechanism - China Theory Week Workshop, Aarhus University, August 2012.
23. Kidney Exchange Mechanisms - Job Interview Presentation, Aarhus University, 2011.