Ron Kupfer
I recently started working as a researcher at Istra research and this website will not be updated frequently.
Before that, I've been a Postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences hosted by Yaron Singer.
Prior to that I was a PhD student in the School of Engineering and Computer Science of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Center for the Study of Rationality, where I was advised by Noam Nisan. During my PhD, I worked as a research intern at Microsoft Research.
I completed my M.Sc. in Computer Science under the supervision of Michael Ben-Or and have a B.Sc in Mathematics and Computer Engineering from the Hebrew University.
Publications
Finding an Edge in a Hidden Graph
with Noam Nisan [arXiv]
A Note on the Gains from Trade of the Random-Offerer Mechanism
with Moshe Babaioff and Shahar Dobzinski [arXiv]
Simplicity in Auctions Revisited: The Primitive Complexity, to appear in EC 2023
with Moshe Babaioff and Shahar Dobzinski [arXiv][IAGT Talk]
Prophet Inequality with Competing Agents, SAGT 2021
with Tomer Ezra and Michal Feldman [arXiv]
On a Competitive Secretary Problem with Deferred Selections, IJCAI 2021
with Tomer Ezra and Michal Feldman [arXiv][IJCAI]
An Optimal Elimination Algorithm for Learning a Best Arm, NeurIPS 2020 (Spotlight presentation)
with Avinatan Hassidim and Yaron Singer [NeurIPS][NeurIPS Talk]
The Adaptive Complexity of Maximizing a Gross Substitutes Valuation, NeurIPS 2020 (Spotlight presentation)
with Eric Balkanski, Sharon Qian, and Yaron Singer [NeurIPS][NeurIPS Talk][Young-EC-19 Talk]
The Influence of One Strategic Agent on the Core of Stable Matchings, WINE 2020
[arXiv][WINE Talk]
A Note on Approximate Revenue Maximization with Two Items
[arXiv]
A Note on the Ratio of Revenues Between Selling in a Bundle and Separately
[arXiv]
Computation in Adversarial Noise, Master Thesis 2015
under supervision of Michael Ben-Or [HUJI]
C-SMART: Efficient seamless cellular phone based patient monitoring system, WoWMoM 2011
with Gaddi Blumrosen, Netanel Avisdris, and Boris Rubinsky [IEEE]
Program Committee
News, Olds, and Other Cool Stuff
I've been organizing the Econ-CS seminar at HUJI (2018-20) and assisted in the organization of the Israel AGT seminar (2021).
I took part in the design and implementation of The Israeli Law Signaling System.
March 2021 - Awarded with the KLA-Tencor Scholarship for excellent Ph.D. students