Biography:Tim Roughgarden

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Short description: American computer scientist
Timothy Avelin Roughgarden
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Roughgarden in 2022
Born(1975-07-20)July 20, 1975
Alma mater
Known forContributions to Selfish Routing in the context of Computer Science
Awards
  • Grace Murray Hopper Award(2009)
  • Gödel prize (2012)
  • Social Choice and Welfare Prize (2014)
  • Kalai Prize(2016)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science, Game Theory
Institutions
ThesisSelfish routing (2002)
Doctoral advisorÉva Tardos
Websitehttp://timroughgarden.org/

Timothy Avelin Roughgarden is an American computer scientist and a professor of Computer Science at Columbia University.[1] Roughgarden's work deals primarily with game theoretic questions in computer science.

Roughgarden received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2002, under the supervision of Éva Tardos.[2] He did a postdoc at University of California, Berkeley in 2004. From 2004 to 2018, Roughgarden was a professor at the Computer Science department at Stanford University working on algorithms and game theory. Roughgarden teaches a four-part algorithms specialization on Coursera.[3]

He received the Danny Lewin award at STOC 2002 for the best student paper. He received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2007,[4] the Grace Murray Hopper Award in 2009,[5] and the Gödel Prize in 2012 for his work on routing traffic in large-scale communication networks to optimize performance of a congested network.[6][7] He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017[8][9] and the Kalai Prize in 2016.

Roughgarden is a co-editor of the 2016 textbook Algorithmic Game Theory, as well as the author of two chapters (Introduction to the Inefficiency of Equilibria and Routing Games).[10][11]

Selected publications

  • Roughgarden, Tim (2016). Twenty Lectures on Algorithmic Game Theory. Cambridge University Press. 
  • Roughgarden, Tim (2005). Selfish Routing and the Price of Anarchy. MIT Press. 
  • Roughgarden, Tim (March 2002). "How Bad is Selfish Routing?". Journal of the ACM 49 (2): 236–259. doi:10.1145/506147.506153. 
  • Roughgarden, Tim (2002), "The price of anarchy is independent of the network topology", Proceedings of the 34th Symposium on Theory of Computing, pp. 428–437 

References

  1. "Tim Roughgarden's Homepage". http://theory.stanford.edu/~tim/. 
  2. "Tim Roughgarden's Profile - Stanford Profiles". Stanford University. http://soe.stanford.edu/research/surreal.htm. 
  3. "Algorithms Specialization". Coursera Inc.. https://www.coursera.org/specializations/algorithms. 
  4. "White House Announces 2007 Awards for Early Career Scientists and Engineers". The George W. Bush White House Archives (Press release). Washington, D.C.: Office of Science and Technology Policy. 19 December 2008. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
  5. "ACM Awards Recognize Computer Science Innovation". acm.org (Press release). Association for Computing Machinery. 31 March 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
  6. "The Gödel Prize 2012 - Laudatio". European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. 2012. http://eatcs.org/index.php/component/content/article/1-news/1251-the-goedel-prize-2012-laudatio-. 
  7. "ACM Gödel Prize for Seminal Papers in Algorithmic Game Theory". Game Theory Society. 3 June 2012. http://gametheorysociety.org/acm-godel-prize-for-seminal-papers-in-algorithmic-game-theory/. 
  8. "Tim Roughgarden: Fellow, Awarded 2017". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2017. https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/tim-roughgarden/. 
  9. Knowles, Hannah (17 April 2017). "Four professors named Guggenheim fellows". The Stanford Daily. https://www.stanforddaily.com/2017/04/16/four-professors-named-guggenheim-fellows/. 
  10. Hrsg., Nisan, Noam (24 September 2007). Algorithmic game theory. ISBN 978-0-521-87282-9. OCLC 870638977. http://worldcat.org/oclc/870638977. 
  11. "Tim Roughgarden's Books and Surveys". http://timroughgarden.org/books.html. 

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