About the Authors
Ilias Diakonikolas
Ilias Diakonikolas
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh
ilias.d[ta]ed.ac.uk
www.iliasdiakonikolas.org
Ilias Diakonikolas is an assistant professor in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He obtained his Ph.D. from Columbia University advised by Mihalis Yannakakis. He is interested in algorithms, learning, statistics, and game theory.
Rocco A.\ Servedio
Rocco A. Servedio
Department of Computer Science
Columbia University
rocco[ta]cs.columbia.edu
www.cs.columbia.edu/~rocco
Rocco Servedio is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University. He graduated from Harvard University, where his Ph.D. was supervised by Les Valiant. He is interested in computational learning theory, computational complexity, and property testing, with the study of Boolean functions as an underlying theme tying these topics together. He enjoys spending time with his family and hopes to share a bottle of Cutty Sark with H.M. in the afterlife.
Li-Yang Tan
Li-Yang Tan
Department of Computer Science
Columbia University
liyang[ta]cs.columbia.edu
www.cs.columbia.edu/~liyang
Li-Yang Tan is a Ph.D. student at Columbia University where he is fortunate to be advised by Rocco Servedio. His research interests lie in complexity theory, with a focus on discrete Fourier analysis, the complexity of Boolean functions, and computational learning theory.
Andrew Wan
Andrew Wan
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
University of California, Berkeley
atw12[ta]eecs.berkeley.edu
people.seas.harvard.edu/~atw12
Andrew Wan is currently a research fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley. Before this appointment, he was an assistant professor at IIIS, Tsinghua University. He received his doctorate from Columbia University in 2010 under the supervision of Tal Malkin and Rocco Servedio. His interests include complexity theory, cryptography, and computational learning theory. Before graduate school, he was a student of philosophy at Columbia University and enjoyed playing the piano, the trumpet, and the accordion. Although he still enjoys playing music, the PAC model rarely affords him the time.