Ruta Mehta is an Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests

Algorithmic Game Theory, Market Analysis for Strategic Behavior, Combinatorial Optimization,
Genetic Evolution, Dynamical Systems, Machine Learning.

Positions

Assistant Professor - Jan’16 to Current
Held Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Postdoctoral Fellow -Aug’15 to Dec’15
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley.

Postdoctoral Fellow -Sept’12 to July’15
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology.
(Host: Prof. Vijay V. Vazirani)

Visiting Researcher - Summer, 2011
Algorithms and Randomness Center, Georgia Tech.
(Host: Prof. Maria Florina Balcan)

Software Engineer and Developer - Aug’05 to July’07
Sybase Software India Pvt. Ltd.

Education

PhD in Computer Science and Engineering -July’07 to July’12
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
Advisor: Prof. Milind Sohoni.

M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering -July’03 to July’05
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering -June’99 to June’03
Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda.

Honors

Invited to Economics and Computation program at the Simons Institute, UC Berkeley.
- Outstanding Post-Doctoral Researcher Award 2014, College of Computing, Georgia Tech.
- First ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award 2012.
- Excellence in Ph.D. Thesis Award, 2012, IIT-Bombay.
- Google India Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship 2012.
- IBM PhD Award in 2010 (Awarded annually to an Indian PhD student).
- IBM PhD Fellowship for the year 2009-2010 (Two annual fellowships in India).
- Invited to attend Rising Stars in EECS, 2013 (hosted by MIT).
- Invited to China Theory Week 2012, hosted by Aarhus University, Denmark.

Teaching:

Topics course on Algorithmic Game Theory (Spring'17). Theory II (Fall'16).

Graduate Students:

Shant Boodaghians, Ziwei Ji, Rucha Kulkarni (incoming), Vasileios Livanos (incoming).

Undergraduate and Masters Students:

Shivam Gupta, Spencer Gordon (Siebel Scholar 2017. Now a PhD student at Caltech), Wei-Chun Lee.


Recent Professional Services

On program committees of WWW 2018, ITCS 2018, FSTTCS 2017, EC 2017, SODA 2017.
Serving as a Tutorial Chair of WINE'17.
Co-organized a session on Career Advice for graduate students at EC'17.
Co-organized Game Theory Workshop, 14 - 17 Dec, 2015; a part of Combinatorial Optimization trimester program held atHausdorff Center of Mathematics, Universitat Bonn, Germany.

Recent and Upcoming Visits

• Economics and Computation Reunion, Simons Institute, UC Berkeley, April 27 - 28, 2017.
• Midwest Theory Day, April 15 - 16, 2017.
• Tutorial talk at WINE'16, Montreal, 11 Nov, 2016. (Note: Could not go due to visa issues)
• Visit to Simons Institute at Berkeley, 6 - 20, Nov, 2016.
• Talk at Bellairs Workshop on AGT, 8 - 13 April, 2016.
• Econ-CS Seminar at the Duke University, 25 March, 2016.
• Theory Seminar in the Dept. of CS at Duke University, 24 March, 2016.

Awards and Honors

• Outstanding Post-Doctoral Researcher Award 2014, College of Computing, Georgia Tech.
• ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award 2012.
• IIT-Bombay Excellence in Ph.D. Thesis Award 2012.
• Google India Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship 2012.
• IBM Ph.D. Award 2010 (Awarded annually to an Indian PhD student).
• IBM Ph.D. Fellowship for the 2009 - 2010 academic year (Two annual fellowships in India).
• Invited to China Theory Week 2012, hosted by CTIC, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Contact Information

Ruta Mehta
Room 3218
201 N Goodwin Ave
Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL 61801
Office Phone: 217-300-4650
Email: rutamehta@.illinois.edu

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