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Pooja Kulkarni

I am Postdoctoral Researcher at Northwestern University hosted by Prof. Samir Khuller. Prior to this, I was a PhD candidate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the co-advisement of Jugal Garg and Ruta Mehta. During my PhD, I am fortunate to have also been mentored by Chandra Chekuri and Siddharth Barman.

I work in theoretical Computer Science. Broadly speaking, I am interested in designing systems that ensure satisfaction of all agents and thereby stability of the system. My approach to this is via fair or equilibrium solutions. Specifically, I have worked on Fair allocation of resources and Equilibrium Computation in Data Economies. My work has significant intersection with online and submodular optimization.

I always love chatting with people about my (or their) research. If you would like to connect with me, shoot me an email at: poojark2 (at) illinois (dot) edu

News (2024-25)

(October'25) I will be at INFORMS Job market session. Do catch up if around!
(August'25) I will present a poster on my work on Equilibrium Computation for Data at the Incentives for Collaborative Learning and Data Sharing.
(August'25) I will be at APPROX/RANDOM. Looking forward to meeting anyone around :)
(August'25) I presented my work on submodular cycle cancellation at the Algorithmic and Structural Aspects of Submodularity workshop at TTIC.
(August'25) Started a postdoc at Northwestern University hosted by Prof. Samir Khuller in Fall'25.
(July'25) I am attending EC'25 and presenting my work on online MMS. If anyone is around let me know!
(June'25) Defended my thesis :)
(Nov'24) I will be giving a talk at the IDEAL workshop on fairness at Northwestern University!
(October'24) I am attending FOCS and if anyone is around, would love to catch up! Please email me :)
Selected for the Doctoral consortium (DC) at EAAMO. Unfortunately, I cannot be there in person, but I will give an online lightning talk about my work at DC.
(August'24) I will be attending ADFOCS and giving a talk on my work on Nash social welfare maximization with XOS valuation at MPI.
(August'24) I gave a lightning talk at TTIC workshop on Learning Augmented Algorithms.
(July'24) Invited as a speaker to ISMP'24.
(June'24) Invited as a participant of the Barbados workshop on Fairness in Algorithms.
(April'24) Had a wonderful visit at Stanford with Jan Vondrak.

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