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Vasilis Syrgkanis
Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, New England
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Vasilis Syrgkanis is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, New England, where he is co-leading the project on Automated Learning and Intelligence for Causation and Economics (ALICE). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 2014, under the supervision of Prof. Eva Tardos and spent two years at Microsoft Research, New York as a postdoctoral researcher. His research addresses problems at the intersection of machine learning, economics and theoretical computer science. His work has received best paper awards at the 2015 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC’15), the 2015 Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS’15) and the Conference on Learning Theory (COLT’19).