Contact info:
vas.livanos at gmail dot com

CV (last updated: March 11th, 2026)

Vasilis Livanos

Post-doctoral researcher at the University of Southern California.

I am currently on the academic job market.

Research interests:
Algorithmic Game Theory, Algorithms under Uncertainty,
Combinatorial Optimization, Online Mechanism Design,
Machine Learning.

I am a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Southern California, hosted by the incredible Shaddin Dughmi.
I am also affiliated with the Archimedes AI Research Unit of the Athena Research Center.

My research interests lie in algorithmic game theory, with a focus on theoretical problems related to the theme of 'optimization under uncertainty', mechanism design and machine learning.

Previously, I was a post-doctoral researcher at CMM and the University of Chile, working with the fantastic duo of José Correa and José Soto. I was also a visiting post-doctoral researcher at EPFL, where I was hosted by the amazing Andrés Cristi. Before that, I obtained by Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where I was extremely fortunate to be co-advised by Ruta Mehta and Chandra Chekuri.

Before joining the theory group at UIUC, I received my Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens where I was a member of the Computation and Reasoning Lab and I was lucky enough to be advised by Dimitris Fotakis.