Hi there, I'm Raf (pronunced like "raw fish" minus the "ish"). I am an Associate Professor in Computer Science at CU Boulder, and an affiliate faculty member 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:
- Dave, Jens, and I are co-organizing the DIMACS 2024 Workshop on Forecasting: October 14 at Rutgers, co-located with ADT.
- Congratulations 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
- Congrats to Jessie for being awarded an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship! Starting in Fall 2022, she'll in the Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) working with Yiling Chen.
- Congrats to Gabe for having his paper chosen for Spotlights Beyond WINE!
- Bo and I are the local co-chairs of COLT 2021, Aug 15-19 in Boulder.
- Irene, Aviad, and I organized the EC 2021 Mentoring Workshop.