• NEWS!
  
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• Keynote/Plenary Talks:
  13th Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT 2020).
  21st Max Planck Advanced Course on the Foundations of Computer Science (ADCOS 2020).
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• Co-Chair of WINE 2020.
  Stay tuned for its ACM TEAC special issue!
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• Journal Associate Editor:
  Mathematics of Operations Research (MOR)
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• Honored to receive NSF CAREER Award (2018 - 2023).
  Thank you NSF!
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• Aniket Murhekar wins the prestigeous Siebel Scholar Award, 2020.
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• Committee work: EC 2021 (area chair), STOC 2021, EC 2020 (SPC), AAAI 2020, ICALP 2019, EC 2019, ITCS 2018.
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• Organization:
  Rising Stars in EECS Workshop 2019.
  AGT Mentoring Workshop 2018.

Ruta Mehta

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

TCS@UIUC group
Part of CS-CARES committee @UIUC

Email: rutameht (at) illinois edu
CV, Short Bio

Research Interests: Theoretical Computer Science; Economics, Game Theory and Computation; Fair Division; Interdisciplinary Applications of GT, e.g., to ML and Evolution.

 

Recent Publications

• Indivisible Mixed Manna: On the Computability of MMS + PO Allocations. Rucha Kulkarni, Ruta Mehta, Setareh Taki. EC 2021. (all women authors, again 😊)
• Improving EFX Guarantees through Rainbow Cycle Number. Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury, Jugal Garg, Kurt Mehlhorn, Ruta Mehta, Pranabendu Misra. EC 2021.
• Competitive Allocation of a Mixed Manna. Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury, Jugal Garg, Peter McGlaughlin, Ruta Mehta. SODA 2021.
• PTAS for Maximin Shares in an Indivisible Mixed Manna. Rucha Kulkarni, Ruta Mehta, and Setareh Taki. AAAI 2021. (all women authors)
• Fair and Efficient Allocations under Subadditive Valuations. Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury, Jugal Garg, and Ruta Mehta. AAAI 2021.
• Smoothed Ecient Algorithms and Reductions for Network Coordination Games. Shant Boodaghians, Rucha Kulkarni, and Ruta Mehta. ITCS 2020.
• Online Revenue Maximization for Server Pricing. Shant Boodaghians, Federico Fusco, Stefano Leonardi, Ruta Mehta, and Yishay Mansour. IJCAI-PRICAI 2020.
• Approximate Nash Equilibria of Imitation Games: Algorithms and Complexity. Aniket Murhekar and Ruta Mehta. AAMAS 2020.
• Multiclass Performance Metric Elicitation. Gaurush Hiranandani, Shant Boodaghians, Ruta Mehta, and Oluwasanmi Koyejo. NeuroIPS 2019.
• Unique End of Potential Line. John Fearnley, Spencer Gordon, Ruta Mehta, and Rahul Savani. ICALP 2019.

 

Recent/Upcoming Invited Talks

• FaiRACAC workshop, co-located with EC 2021.
• 13th Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT 2020). (keynote)
• 21st Max Planck Advanced Course on the Foundations of Computer Science (ADFOCS 2020). (honored to be one of three speakers)
• RAIN Seminar at Stanford, Oct 2020.

 

Selected Awards

• NSF CAREER Award, 2018.
• Listed in the Instructors Rated as Excellent by Students @ U. of Illinois 2017.
• Simons Berkeley Research Fellow, 2015.
• Outstanding Post-Doctoral Researcher Award, Georgia Tech, 2014.
• ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award 2012.