Hi there, I'm Raf (pronunced like "raw fish" minus the "ish"). I am Head of Research at Gensyn AI and an Associate Professor in Computer Science at CU Boulder with an affiliate appointment in Applied Math.
My research lies at the interface of theoretical machine learning and economics, with a focus on designing loss functions and information elicitation mechanisms. I am also starting to work on game-theoretic probability and statistics.
I am grateful to work with a group of amazing students. I am currently recruiting students as well.
Before coming to Boulder, I was a postdoc at Microsoft Research NYC, and then at Harvard's CRCS with Yiling Chen and Yaron Singer in the EconCS group. I completed my Ph.D. in theoretical computer science at Berkeley, advised by Christos Papadimitriou and funded by the NDSEG Fellowship.
Some news:
- I'm excited to join Gensyn AI starting August 2026 to lead their research team!
- Congrats to Robin, Robby, and Rick on graduating!
- Congrats to Anish, Dhamma, and Maneesha for graduating! Now at TBD, NCAR, and BC, respectively.
- Dave, Jens, and I co-organized the DIMACS 2024 Workshop on Forecasting: October 14 at Rutgers, co-located with ADT.
- Congrats to Maneesha for her Highlights Beyond EC talk on market making.
- In Fall 2024, Jessie will be starting as an Assistant Professor at Boston College! Check out her blog post on her job market experience.
- I got tenure. I'm profoundly grateful to my committee, students, colleagues, and letter writers.
- I was a member of the MSRI (SLMath) program, Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design, for November 2023.
- I am honored to receive a 2022 Provost's Faculty Achievement Award, one of five given to junior faculty campus-wide.
- Bo and I were the local co-chairs of EC 2022, July 11-15 in Boulder