Manolis Zampetakis

Manolis Zampetakis is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley working with Michael Jordan. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. from the EECS Department at MIT, where he was advised by Constantinos Daskalakis. His undergraduate education was completed at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).

His research interests span Theoretical Machine Learning, Statistics, Optimization, Computational Complexity, Game Theory, Mechanism Design, and Sublinear Algorithms. His work bridges theoretical computer science with practical applications in machine learning and economics. His research consistently appears in top-tier conferences such as STOC, FOCS, COLT, NeurIPS, and EC, with a strong focus on the theoretical foundations of machine learning and game theory.

Zampetakis has received numerous prestigious awards including the ACM SIGEcom Doctoral Dissertation Award and the Google Ph.D. Fellowship. His publications from 2023-2025 demonstrate a consistent output of high-quality research across multiple domains, with a notable emphasis on bridging statistical theory with algorithmic approaches. His work shows increasing integration of robust statistics with mechanism design and game-theoretic approaches.

• ACM SIGEcom Doctoral Dissertation Award
• Google Ph.D. Fellowship
• Special Issue at SAGT 2015
• Special Issue at WINE 2013
• Second Prize in IMC 2012
• Top 5 in Panhellenic Physics Competition 2008

Zampetakis actively advises multiple graduate students including Anay Mehrotra, Jane Lee, Vikram Kher, Katerina Mamali, Shuchen Li, and Nikolaos Koumpis. He has served on program committees and organized workshops including the Workshop on Algorithms for Learning and Economics (WALE 2019, WALE 2022). His research has been supported by grants from Google and likely other major funding agencies given his publication record in top venues.

His research group focuses on theoretical aspects of machine learning with connections to statistics and game theory. He collaborates extensively with researchers across institutions including MIT, UC Berkeley, and Yale colleagues.