Ermis Soumalias

Since September 2020, Ermis is a Ph.D. student advised by Prof. Sven Seuken in the Computation and Economics Research Group at the Department of Informatics of the University of Zurich. Ermis holds an Electrical and Computer Engineering Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. In his diploma thesis, which was advised by Professor Dimitris Fotakis, he studied the sample complexity of profit maximization in deferred-acceptance auctions. He spent the summer of 2022 working as a research scientist intern at Meta under the supervision of  Riccardo Colini Baldeschi.

Mechanism Design, Learning Theory, Machine Learning.

• Revenue Maximization in Deferred-Acceptance Auctions Ermis Soumalias, Dimitris Fotakis and Panagiotis Patsilinakos. Working Paper. pdf (PDF, 310 KB)
• Machine-Learning powered Course Allocation Ermis Soumalias, Behnoosh Zamanlooy, Jakob Weissteiner and Sven Seuken ArXiv Preprint
• Machine-Learning powered Combinatorial Clock Auction Ermis Soumalias*, Jakob Weissteiner*, Jakob Heiss and Sven Seuken ArXiv Preprint code

• Teaching Assistant for Lecture Economics and Computation (Fall 2020)
• Teaching Assistant for Lecture Algorithmic Game Theory and Mechanism Design (Fall 2021)
• Head Teaching Assistant for Lecture Algorithmic Game Theory and Mechanism Design (Fall 2023)