I am currently serving as a member of the program committee of ACM EC25 https://ec25.sigecom.org/;
I have taught Applied Mathematics, Introduction to C++ (3 times) and Mathematics for Communications (twice) at De Montfort University, UK and Game Theory at the Unversity of Saarland, Germany.
My research area is in Algorithms and more specifically Algorithmic Game Theory and Mechanism Design.
My research focuses on designing auctions for multi-parameter domains lately I am interested in designing mechanisms for cryptocurrencies based on the blockchain technology and on Differential Privacy.
My PhD and a some of my follow-up work focuses on an auction for allocating jobs, the game-theoretic version of the seminal scheduling unrelated machines problem. The machines are selfish and won't reveal their processing times for the jobs without getting the correct payment. So in fact the setting is more like the setting of an auction for selling multiple distinct items. Which are the possible mechanisms we can use for the allocating the tasks? I have made crucial steps toward resolving this very important problem however the lower bound I gave in 2007 still hasn't been improved.
Other problems I find tempting are adword auctions, cost sharing, secretary problems, voting, computation of equilibria. I also enjoy computational algebra and geometry.
Microsoft Research Cambridge, Public Talk (video) , Mechanism design for Cloud Computing and Crowdsourcing, March 14, 2014
Invited Talk (see video) at the Inovations in Algorithmic Game Theory Workshop (extremely interesting!), at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
An interview I gave for the Austrian press (in german): Interview in der Standard Zeitung (24. 05.11)
A short presentation about one of my favourite topics from algorithms: the heap data structure
An intro to utility elicitation"Lügen, Versteigerungen und Zeitplanung": Ein kurzer, einfacher Text der erklärt womit ich mich in meiner Disertation beschäftigt habe. (in german)
Το πρόβλημα του τερματισμού (the halting problem) παρουσίαση στο Famelab
Ανοιχτό Πρόβλημα και Φαντασία (in Greek) An essay I wrote on the use of open problem and imagination in teaching problem solving in mathematics
Positions and Research stays [full CV in Europass format]
- Visting Lecturer at the University of West Attica, Department of Informatics and Computer Engineering, Sept 2024-
- Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Athens, Department of Informatics and also at IOHK Research at the University of Edinburgh 2018-March 2020
- Academic Fellow (Feb 2017-March 2018), De Montfort Unviersity, Leicester, UK
- Ernst and Young advisory (2016-2017), Athens, Greece
- Post-Doctoral Researcher (2015-2016) at Teesside University, UK
- Post-Doctoral Researcher (2012-2013) at Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France
- Post-Doctoral Researcher (2012-2014) at Duke University, Department of Computer Science in the group of Vincent Conitzer.
- Post-Doctoral Researcher (2010-2012), University of Vienna, Austria
- Research stay: Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 23.5- 19.6.11
- Post-Doctoral Scholar (2009-2010) Max-Planck Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany
Education
- PhD (2005-2009) University of Athens, Department of Informatics, (with Hons.) Advisor: Elias Koutsoupias
- Master's (2003-2005) Inter-university Program in Logic, Algorithms and Computation (MPLA) (with Hons.), ranked 1st, Advisor: Yiannis Moschovakis
- Bachelor's (1999-2003), University of Athens, Department of Mathematics (with Hons.), ranked at the top 1% Summer semester 2003: Technical University of Vienna (TUW)
Scholarships
- Austrian Research Association (ÖFG) (Austria) (travel grant), 2011
- Alexander von Humbolt Foundation (Germany) (Post Doc Research Fellowship), 2010
- General Secretariat for Research and Technology (for PhD studies) 2005-2008
- Alexandros Onassis foundation (for graduate studies) 2004-2005
- Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) (USA) (travel grant), June, 2005
- Greek State Scholarships Foundation (ΙΚΥ) (ranked 1st), 2004-2005 (declined)
- Greek State Scholarships Foundation (ΙΚΥ) (ranked 1st), 2003-2004
- University of Athens, Antonis Papadakis fund (for undergraduate studies) 2001-2003
- Erasmus (European Commission exchange program), summer semester 2003
- Greek State Scholarships Foundation (ΙΚΥ) (ranked 5th) 1999-2000
I was member of the Management Committee of the COST Action CA16228 “European Network for Game theory” and Vice-Leader of Work Group 1: Algorithmic Theory of Network games
Papers in Conferences
Truthfulness on a Budget: Trading Money for Approximation through Monitoring, Paolo Serafino, Carmine Ventre and Angelina Vidali, International 18th Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (also invited for fast track publication in AGNT as it was regarded as in the premier group of papers that appeared in AAMAS) (AAMAS'19) [paper][slides]
• A characterization of n-player strongly monotone scheduling mechanisms, Annamaria Kovacs and Angelina Vidali, 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'15) [poster] [slides] [paper]
• Mechanism Design for Scheduling with Uncertain Execution Time. Vincent Conitzer and Angelina Vidali 26th Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'14) [poster] [slides] [paper]
• Approximating Utopia: Strong Truthfulness and Externality-Resistant Mechanisms
Amos Fiat, Anna Karlin, Elias Koutsoupias and Angelina Vidali, 4th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS'13) [paper]
• Extending characterizations from subdomains to domains. Angelina Vidali, 7th Workshop in Internet and Network Economics, (WINE '11) [slides] [paper] [video]
A preliminary version was presented at the Innovations in Algorithmic Game Theory workshop.
• Multi-parameter mechanism design under budget and matroid constraints. Monika Henzinger and Angelina Vidali, 19th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, (ESA'11)
A preliminary version was presented at the Workshop GREAT: Economic and Algorithmic Theory Week. [slides] [paper]
• A complete characterization of group-strategyproof mechanisms of cost-sharing. Emmanouil Pountourakis and Angelina Vidali, (ESA'10) 18th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, also invited to the special issue of Algorithmica for ESA. [slides] [paper]
• The Geometry of Truthfulness. Angelina Vidali, (WINE '09), 5th Workshop in Internet and Network Economics. [slides] [paper] [Blog: Noam Nisan ]
• A characterization of 2-player mechanisms for scheduling. George Christodoulou, Elias Koutsoupias and Angelina Vidali, 16th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA '08). [slides] [paper]
• A $1+\phi$ lower bound for truthful scheduling mechanisms. Elias Koutsoupias and Angelina Vidali, 32nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS '07). [slides] [paper]
• A lower bound for scheduling mechanisms. George Christodoulou, Elias Koutsoupias and Angelina Vidali, 18th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA'07). [slides] [paper]
Papers in Journals
• "Truthfulness on a Budget: Trading Money for Approximation through Monitoring" Paolo Serafino, Carmine Ventre, Angelina Vidali accepted in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AGNT) 2019
• A $1+\phi$ lower bound for truthful scheduling mechanisms. Elias Koutsoupias and Angelina Vidali,
Algorithmica, 2013
• A complete characterization of group-strategyproof mechanisms of cost-sharing. Emmanouil Pountourakis and Angelina Vidali,
Algorithmica special issue for ESA'10 . DOI: 10.1007/s00453-011-9602-6
• A lower bound for scheduling mechanisms. George Christodoulou, Elias Koutsoupias and Angelina Vidali,
Algorithmica 55(4): 729-740, 2009.
Theses
Game theoretic analysis of networks
Continued Fractions and Average case analysis of the Euclidean Algorithm [slides (in greek)] [an easy overview of the easiest concepts in English]
Posters
ACM EC'14
AAAI'14
COST IC1205 Summer School on Fair Division, Grenoble, France, 2015
IJCAI'15
If you are eligible for these Research Fellowships https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/lynen-fellowship.html I can host you as former Alexander von Humboldt Fellow.
Articles in Greek
https://195.97.30.42/onassis-magazine/issue-80/London-scholars-event8lxEnbxws
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