About the Authors
Jugal Garg
University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
jugal[ta]illinois[td]edu
jugal.ise.illinois.edu
University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
jugal[ta]illinois[td]edu
jugal.ise.illinois.edu
Jugal Garg is currently a research assistant professor at
the
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the
Max-Planck-Institut für
Informatik,
Saarbrücken, Germany, and
Georgia Tech, USA.
He received his Ph.D.
from IIT-Bombay,
under the guidance of
Milind Sohoni
and
Bharat Adsul,
in August 2012.
Jugal's research explores computational and strategic aspects of
equilibria in game theory and economics, and their connections with
dynamical systems and learning. He is interested broadly in the
design and analysis of algorithms, optimization and mathematical
programming.
In his spare time, he likes long distance running, hiking and swimming.
Ruta Mehta
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
rutamehta[ta]cs[td]illinois[td]edu
rutamehta.cs.illinois.edu
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
rutamehta[ta]cs[td]illinois[td]edu
rutamehta.cs.illinois.edu
Ruta Mehta is an assistant professor at
the
University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
in the
Department of Computer Science.
Prior to joining UIUC, she did postdoc at
the
Simons Institute for the Theory of
Computing at UC Berkeley
(Aug'15 to Dec'15), and in
the
College of Computing at
Georgia Tech (Aug'12 to July'15, host:
Vijay Vazirani).
She received her Ph.D. from
IIT-Bombay under the guidance of
Milind Sohoni and
Bharat Adsul,
in August 2012. She is a recipient of
ACM India Doctoral
Dissertation Award, 2012, and Outstanding
Post-Doctoral Researcher Award 2014, College of Computing,
Georgia Tech.
Her main research interests lie in the area of algorithmic game theory,
mathematical economics, and in designing efficient algorithms.
In her spare time, she likes to listen to music and hike.
Vijay V. Vazirani
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
vijay[ta]cc[td]gatech[td]edu
cc.gatech.edu/~Vijay.Vazirani/
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
vijay[ta]cc[td]gatech[td]edu
cc.gatech.edu/~Vijay.Vazirani/
Vijay V. Vazirani got his Ph.D. from the
University of California at
Berkeley
in 1983 under the supervision of
Manuel Blum. He has made
contributions to the theory of algorithms, in particular to
the classical maximum matching problem, approximation algorithms,
and complexity theory. Over the last decade and a half, he has
contributed widely to an algorithmic study of economics and game theory.
In 2001 he published what was widely regarded as the definitive book on Approximation Algorithms. This book has been translated into Japanese, Polish, French, and Chinese. In 2007 he co-edited a comprehensive volume on Algorithmic Game Theory. He is an ACM Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow. In his free time, he enjoys listening to music: Indian and Western Classical and Jazz.
In 2001 he published what was widely regarded as the definitive book on Approximation Algorithms. This book has been translated into Japanese, Polish, French, and Chinese. In 2007 he co-edited a comprehensive volume on Algorithmic Game Theory. He is an ACM Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow. In his free time, he enjoys listening to music: Indian and Western Classical and Jazz.