Towards pragmatic mechanism design

This presentation will focus on some of the recent work of the speaker. Broadly speaking, this research aims at building the theoretical foundations for a more applied use of Algorithmic Mechanism Design (AMD).

A first direction aims at reconsidering the role of money as a 'necessary evil' in AMD. The idea is to reconcile computation and incentives without the use of monetary transfers by leveraging novel ways to incorporate real-world hypotheses in the mechanism design setting. A complementary avenue, instead, investigates the use of AMD as a tool to establish the right "user model" for the success of lab experiments devised by neuroscientists to "measure" awareness.