CURRICULUM VITAE - Emmanouil “Manolis” Pountourakis

PERSONAL DATA
Date of Birth: July 24, 1986, Athens, Greece
Address: eotokopoulou 3, 15343 Agia Paraskevi, Greece
Phone: (+30) 210-6008549
Email: malgor21@gmail.com, manolis@u.northwestern.edu, e.pountourakis@di.uoa.gr
Homepage: http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~grad0983
EDUCATION

Northwestern University, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Evanston, Illinois, USA

– PhD in Computer Science, starting Fall 2010

University of Athens, Informatics & Telecommunications, Athens, Greece

– Master of Science in Computer Science (eory tra), 2008 - present

* GPA: 9.93/10.00 (courses completed), expected GPA: 9.94/10.00
* esis: Characterizing Truthful Meanisms (in prep.), Advisor: Elias Koutsoupias
– Baelor of Science in Computer Science, 2004 - 2008
* GPA: 8.50/10.00, top 4% in graduation class, top 1-2% in entering class
* esis: Cost Sharing Meanisms, Advisor: Elias Koutsoupias

RESEARCH INTERESTS

* Algorithmic Game eory, Social Networks, Rational Cryptography, Approximation,

Online, and Randomized Algorithms

PUBLICATIONS

– Conferences
* ”A complete aracterization of group-strategyproof meanisms of cost-sharing”, Em-
manouil Pountourakis and Angelina Vidali. To appear in ESA’10

ACADEMIC SERVICE

– Reviewing Service
* ESA 2010, SAGT 2010, ESORICS 2010

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

University of Athens, Athens, Greece

– Resear Assistant
* Elias Koutsoupias, Vassilis Zissimopoulos
 – Teaing Assistant
* Elias Koutsoupias, Aggelos Kiayias, Stavros Kolliopoulos, Dimitris Alioptas, Ioannis
Emiris, Grigoris Karagiorgos
TALKS
Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece
– eory Tea
* Group-strategyproof cost-sharing meanisms
University of Athens Athens, Greece
– Student eory Seminar
* Rational Secret Sharing: Impossibility result for linger-avoiding Nash equilibria for
bounded domain functions
* Truthfulness and budgets: Impossibility result for strategyproofness in mutli-unit auc-
tions with budgets
* Cost Sharing Meanisms: An introduction to Cost-Sharing Meanism design
HONORS, AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
– Honors
* Ranked 3rd in my graduation class, Department of Informatics & Telecommunications,
University of Athens
– Solarships awarded
* Murphy Fellowship for the year 2010-2011, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sci-
ence, Northwestern University
* Zoi Soutsou Fellowship for graduate studies, 2008-2009
– Awards
* Award for ranking 1st for the year 2008-2009 among the graduate students of the e-
ory tra, Department of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Athens.
LANGUAGES
– Greek: native, English: fluent, German: fluent
COMPUTER SKILLS
– Programming
* C, C++, Python, Prolog, Haskell
– Applications
* LTEX, Matlab, Maple
– Operating Systems
* Linux, Microso Windows
INTERESTS
* Working out in the gym, scuba diving, healthy cooking