I am a postdoc at the Algorithms and Complexity department at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, currently visiting José Correa and Victor Verdugo in Chile. I obtained my PhD at the DISCO group at TU Berlin, where I was fortunate to be advised by Max Klimm and Felix Fischer. Previously, I graduated as an industrial engineer and MS in Operations Management at Universidad de Chile, being advised by José Correa and Victor Verdugo for my thesis.
My research interests lie in the intersection of economics and computation, especially in the fields of algorithmic game theory and social choice. I enjoy thinking about topics such as mechanism design without money and political apportionment using tools from discrete mathematics and optimization.
Email: jcembran [at] mpi-inf.mpg.de
(Dec 25) Attending NeurIPS 2025, MIP South America 2025, and WOA 2025 this (Chilean) summer.
(Oct 25) Our paper on online proportional apportionment with José Correa, Svenja Griesbach, and Victor Verdugo has been accepted for SODA'26.
(Sep 25) Paper accepted for NeurIPS'25: Impartial Selection with Predictions, with Felix Fischer and Max Klimm.
(Sep 25) Our paper on combinatorial insights for monotone apportionment, together with José Correa, Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin, Alexandros Tsigonias-Dimitriadis, and Victor Verdugo, was accepted for publication in Mathematics of Operations Research.
(Sep 25) I started a visiting position at Universidad de Chile, to explore questions related to apportionment with José Correa and Victor Verdugo.