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Shaddin Dughmi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC) and a member of the Theory Group. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, summa cum laude, from Cornell University in 2004 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2011. Dughmi has received several prestigious awards, including the NSF CAREER Award, the Arthur L. Samuel doctoral thesis award from Stanford University, and the ACM EC student paper award. His research focuses on fundamental questions that stimulate the development of new algorithmic techniques and shed insight into the power and limitations of algorithms. His work investigates a range of topics across various domains, including game theory, mechanism design, information design, delegation in contract theory, and decision-making under online and stochastic uncertainty, as well as learning theory.
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