Constantinos Daskalakis

Constantinos Daskalakis is the Armen Avanessians (1982) Professor in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). He joined MIT in 2009 and is a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), affiliated with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and the Operations Research Center (ORC). His research focuses on theoretical computer science, with emphasis on game theory, machine learning, and high-dimensional statistics.

• Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science (not explicitly stated, but implied by tenure and awards).

Research interests include computational complexity of Nash equilibria, multi-item auctions, machine learning algorithms, and causal inference. His work bridges game theory, economics, probability, and statistics, with applications in AI and healthcare.

Key contributions include resolving long-standing problems in computational game theory and developing efficient methods for statistical hypothesis testing. He has been recognized with the 2018 Nevanlinna Prize, ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, and the Kalai Game Theory Prize.

Affiliations: CSAIL, LIDS, ORC, and the Foundations of Data Science Institute. Active in multi-agent learning, bias mitigation in data, and generative models.