Sourav Sahoo
sourav22899.bsky.social
Sourav Sahoo
@sourav22899.bsky.social
PhD Student at MIT. Previously, EE undergrad at IIT Madras. Interested in online learning, auctions, and mechanism design.

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Announcing (w @adamsmith.xyz @thejonullman.bsky.social) the 2025 edition of the Foundations of Responsible Computing Job Market Profiles!

Check out 40 job market candidates in mathematical research in computation and society writ large!

Link:
drive.google.com/file/d/1zvsr...
October 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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On the market this year? Make sure you get included in the list of SIGecom job market candidates! Submit the google form by Oct 7 and you profile by Oct 12.
It is that time of year again to gather all the profiles of SIGecom job market candidates!

Share this with any job market candidate at the intersection of Econ, CS, and OR that you may know.

Candidates should complete the submission form (docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...) by October 7th, 2025.
SIGecom Job Candidates 2025-2026
Just like in the last 10 years, this year there will be an article in SIGecom Exchanges profiling the current junior job market candidates from the SIGecom community. These profiles will include a res...
docs.google.com
October 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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The (Virtual) Marketplace Innovations Workshop (MIW 2025) runs Monday-Wednesday 9-4pm Eastern next week. marketplaceinnovation.net

Register in advance. Cancel your regular meetings. The workshop runs on runs on the spatial chat platform Virtual Chair, which is great for catching up with colleagues.
Workshop on Marketplace Innovation
The home page for the annual Marketplace Innovation Workshop.
marketplaceinnovation.net
May 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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What do a computer scientist, an economist & two legal scholars have in common? They all worry about algorithmic collusion. Join us for an interdisciplinary online event on March 21 at 1PM Central Time.

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CS+Law
When: Third Friday of each month at 1 PM Central Time (sometimes fourth Friday; next workshop: Friday, March 21, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Central Time) What: First 90 minutes: Two presentations of CS+Law wo...
www.cslawworkshop.org
March 18, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Please join us for our inaugural BEACH Day: a workshop from the Boston Economics and Computing Hub.

On What: Behavioral Models in EconCS
When: Friday April 4, 2025
Where: BU CDS @bucds.bsky.social
Registration: Free-but-required (forms.gle/ZkB3qVMqQYjA...) by March 28.
Schedule: In-progress below!
Boston Economics and Computing Hub
www.boston-ec-hub.com
March 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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🚨 Call for Papers – #EAAMO25 🚨

We invite researchers, practitioners & policymakers to submit work on equity, access, & fairness in algorithms, optimization & mechanism design.

📅 Abstracts due Apr-17
📅 Papers due April-24

🔗 Learn more: conference.eaamo.org/cfp/
Call for Participation
The fifth ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO ‘25) will occur November 5–7, 2025 in University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
conference.eaamo.org
February 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Jokes by Claude. Allocated for free.

The SIGEcom Winter Meeting is in ONE WEEK and is also free, on the topic of Gen AI x Market Design, but registration is required! Sign up now! See you March 6!
Registration: SIGecom Winter Meeting 2025
March 6, 2025 on Virtual Chair.
docs.google.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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New paper with @epsilonrational.bsky.social and Jon Schneider! Say you’re playing a repeated game against an opponent who will best-respond to your algorithm, but you only have a prior over their utility. What algorithm should you deploy to maximize your expected utility? arxiv.org/abs/2412.182...
Learning to Play Against Unknown Opponents
We consider the problem of a learning agent who has to repeatedly play a general sum game against a strategic opponent who acts to maximize their own payoff by optimally responding against the learner...
arxiv.org
December 26, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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Found slides by Ankur Moitra (presented at a TCS For All event) on "How to do theoretical research." Full of great advice!

My favourite: "Find the easiest problem you can't solve. The more embarrassing, the better!"

Slides: drive.google.com/file/d/15VaT...
TCS For all: sigact.org/tcsforall/
December 13, 2024 at 8:31 PM
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Organizers: Tal Rabin (UPenn & AWS), Lisa Zhang (Bell Labs), Shubhangi Saraf (U. Toronto), and Elette Boyle (Reichman University (IDC) and NTT Research)

(I am not an organizer, just a guy with a BlueSky account)

To stay informed about TCS events, follow the aptly named cstheory-events.org #TCSSky
CS Theory Events
Aggregator for CS theory workshops, schools, and so on
cstheory-events.org
December 14, 2024 at 4:12 AM
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It's tough to gain visibility as a young researcher, and it's job market season! Are you a theoretical computer science PhD/postdoc on the job market?

I don't have a crazy juge audience but I'll try to help a bit: fill this form, and I'll tweet your pitch and info!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Theoretical CS Job Market 2024
docs.google.com
November 23, 2024 at 11:56 PM
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This year’s SIGecom job market candidate profiles are now available. Please share the following link with anyone you think may be interested in hiring from our community in either postdoctoral or faculty positions: www.cs.drexel.edu/~vg399/SIGec...
www.cs.drexel.edu
November 14, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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📢 Some good folks (so, not me :)) in the Foundations of Responsible Computing are putting together a list of people (students and postdocs) on the job market this year. If you or would like to be included, or you would like to nominate someone, use the following form: forms.gle/hn8QyH1y2wbs...
FORC Job List 2024-2025
If you would like to be included in the "FORC" job list for graduating PhDs, postdocs and other junior researchers, or if you would like to nominate someone, fill out the form below. The intention is ...
forms.gle
November 18, 2024 at 1:01 AM