Inbal Talgam-Cohen's Website

Research group

I'm very fortunate to advise and work with the following excellent students and researchers.

Post-docs:

Ivan Geffner (co-hosted at IE&M)
Xin Huang (Aly-Kaufman Post-doctoral Fellow, co-hosted at IE&M)
Ganesh Ghalme (co-hosted at IE&M) - now at IIT Hyderabad

PhD students:

Tal Alon (direct PhD track, VATAT excellence prize for interdisciplinary data science research)
Konstantin Zabaranyi (direct PhD track, VATAT data science fellow and excellence prize for interdisciplinary data science research, co-advised with Yakov Babichenko)

MSc students:

Nir Bachrach - MSc thesis "Distributional Robustness: From Pricing to Auctions"
Ameer Amer - MSc thesis "Auctions with Interdependence and SOS: Improved Approximation"

Student visitors:

Chang Wang (summer 2022)
Landon Chu (MIT MISTI intern, summer 2021, virtual)
Magdalen Dobson (MIT MISTI intern, summer 2019)

For students/visitors

Prospective postdocs

Please check out our GameTheory@Technion Group's post-doc opportunities, or contact me directly for a post-doc position at the CS Department.

Prospective students

Please see my research topics, as well as these slides introducing my research, and these Hebrew ones (presented at the CS Department's 2020 excellent students meeting).
I'm always looking for motivated students with a strong background in math and/or algorithms -- please contact me with your CV (if available) and grade transcripts.

Links I like

Technical resources:

Useful inequalities
Taking the dual of an LP
How to read a paper
Tim Roughgarden's AGT courses: beginners and advanced
Jason Hartline's book on mechanism design and approximation
Regular vs MHR distributions

Research community resources:

Theory Blog Aggregator
Al Roth's Market Design Blog
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG)
SIGecom Exchanges
ACM XRDS Student Magazine

Career advice:

Fun:

PhD Comics