WALE 2026
Summary
The Workshop on Algorithms for Learning and Economics (WALE) brings together researchers from academia and industrial research working in the design of algorithms for economics and machine learning. The topics include: mechanism design, auctions design, market design as well as econometrics and statistical inference in the presence of malicious or strategic behaviors. The discussion will involve both the design of novel algorithms as well as computational limitations. There is a technical program of introductory talks given by pioneers in different areas followed by talks by participants of the workshop. In addition, there will be ample time for informal discussion and collaboration.
Details
WALE stands for Workshop on Algorithms for Learning and Economics. It was previously organized in 2024, 2022 and 2019 and is a successor to the GREAT workshop organized in past years (see GREAT11, GREAT14, GREAT17).
It will take place on the beautiful island of Lemnos located in Northeast Aegean and is accessible by plane. The main conference venue is the Garofallidion building of the University of the Aegean, located in Myrina.
The workshop will last for 5 days with each day having a different theme. The tentative topics and daily schedule will be listed below.
Schedule (July 12-16, 2026)
| 03:00 p.m. – 04:00 p.m. | Registration |
| 04:00 p.m. – 04:45 p.m. | Steven Wu, The Agentic Garden of Forking Paths |
| 04:45 p.m. – 05:30 p.m. | Nika Hagtalab , Agentic Communication for Collaborative Computation |
| 05:30 p.m. – 06:00 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| 06:00 p.m. – 06:45 p.m. | Nina Balcan, Human-AI collaboration for Training Verifiers for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning |
| 06:45 p.m. – 08:00 p.m. | Dinner Buffet (on site) |
Organizers: Meena Jagadeesan (UPenn), Chara Podimata (MIT), Ana-Andreea Stoica (MPI-IS)
| 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | Trustworthy AI #1 |
| Sarah Cen ( CMU) | |
| Alireza Fallah (Rice) |
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| Jess Sorrell (Johns Hopkins) | |
| 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Lunch (provided) & Poster Session 1 |
| 1:00 p.m. – 02:30 p.m. | Trustworthy AI #2 |
| Student Spotlight Talks | Carmel Baharav (MIT), Erica Chiang (Cornell), Jivat Kaur (UC Berkeley), Sikata Sengupta (UPenn), and Narun Raman (UBC) |
| Panel Discussion | Ellen Vitercik, Serena Wang and Andrew Ilyas |
| 03:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. | Excursion #1 |
Organizers: Hu Fu (Shanghai), Rad Niazadeh (Chicago)
| 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | Mechanism Design #1 |
| Alex Slivkins (Microsoft) | |
| Moshe Babaioff (Hebrew Univ.) | |
| Zhihao Tang (Shanghai) | |
| 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Lunch (provided) & Poster Session 2 |
| 1:00 p.m. – 02:30 p.m. | Mechanism Design #2 |
| Sid Banerjee (Cornell) | |
| Andres Cristi (EPFL) | |
| Yatong Chen (Max Planck) | |
| 08:00 p.m. | Dinner @ Manos Tavern |
Organizers: Ioannis Panageas (Irvine), Gabriele Farina (MIT)
| 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | Learning and Games #1 |
| Giannis Fikioris (Cornell) | |
| Max Fishelson (MIT/IAS) | |
| Vatsal Sharan (USC) | |
| Alexandros Hollender (Oxford) | |
| 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Lunch (provided) & Poster Session 3 |
| 1:00 p.m. – 03:00 p.m. | Learning and Games #2 |
| Brian Zhang (MIT) | |
| Martino Bernasconi (Bocconi) | |
| Konstantin Makarychev (Northwestern) | |
| Yurong Chen (Inria) | |
| 05:00 p.m. – 09:30 p.m. | Excursion #2 |
| 10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Jason Hartline, Truthful Measures of Miscalibration |
| 10:45 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | Ellen Vitercik, Reliable Machine Learning for Discrete Decision-Making |
| 11:30 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. | lunch (provided) |
Confirmed Participants
Abhishek Shetty (MIT)
Aleksandrs Slivkins (Microsoft Research NYC)
Alessandro Morosini (MIT)
Alexandros Kouridakis (UT Austin)
Alexandros Hollender (Oxford)
Alireza Fallah (RICE)
Alkmini Sgouritsa (AUEB, Archimedes/Athena RC)
Alon Eden (Hebrew University)
Ana-Andreea Stoica (Max Planck)
Anas Barakat (SUTD)
Anay Mehrotra (Stanford University)
Andrea Celli (Bocconi University)
Andreas Kontogiannis (NTUA)
Andres Cristi (EPFL)
Andrew Ilyas (CMU)
Argyris Deligkas (Royal Holloway)
Argyris Mouzakis (Waterloo)
Aris Filos-Ratsikas (Univ. of Edinburgh)
Artem Tsikiridis (TUM)
Bailey Flanigan (MIT)
Benjamin Laufer (Cornell)
Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury (UIUC)
Brian Lee (Berkeley)
Brian Zhang (MIT)
Carmel Baharav (MIT)
Chara Podimata (MIT)
Charalampos Kokkalis (Univ. of Edinburgh)
Charalampos Platanos (NTUA)
Charis Pipis (MIT)
Christos Tzamos (UoA, Percepta, Archimedes AI)
Constantine Caramanis (UT Austin)
Dionysis Arvanitakis (Northwestern)
Ekaterina Fedorova (MIT)
Eleni Batziou (Univ. of Liverpool)
Elisavet Erkekoglou (UW Madison)
Ellen Vitercik (Stanford)
Erald Sinanaj (Cornell)
Eric Balkanski (Columbia)
Erica Chiang (Cornell)
Evangelos Pipis (NTUA)
Evi Micha (USC)
Ezra Edelman (UPenn)
Federico Fusco (Sapienza)
Gabriele Farina (MIT)
Georgios Birmpas (Univ. of Liverpool)
Giannis Fikioris (Cornell University)
Giannis Tyrovolas (Oxford)
Giorgos Christodoulou (AUTH, Archimedes/Athena RC)
Guido Schäfer (CWI and Univ. of Amsterdam)
Hu Fu (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
Ilias Diakonikolas (UW Madison)
Inbal Talgam-Cohen (TAU)
Ioannis Anagnostides (CMU)
Ioannis Caragiannis (Aarhus University)
Ioannis Panageas (UC Irvine)
Jason Hartline (Northwestern)
Jelena Diakonikolas (UW Madison)
Jessica Sorrell (Johns Hopkins)
Jingyi Liu (Princeton)
Jivat Neet Kaur (Berkeley)
Johannes Brustle (Sapienza)
Katerina Mamali (Yale)
Katerina Sotiraki (Yale)
Kenny Peng (Cornell)
Kevin Leyton-Brown (UBC)
Konstantin Makarychev (Northwestern)
Korinna Fragkia (CMU)
Manolis Vlatakis (UW Madison)
Manolis Zampetakis (Yale)
Marilena Vendittelli (Sapienza)
Marina Kontalexi (NTUA, Univ. of South Denmark, Archimedes/Athena RC)
Mark Bedaywi (UC Berkeley)
Martino Bernasconi (Bocconi)
Maryam Bahrani (Ritual)
Matt Weinberg (Princeton)
Matteo Russo (EPFL)
Matthew vonAllmen (Northwestern)
Max Fishelson (MIT/IAS)
Meena Jagadeesan (UPenn)
Moshe Babaioff (HUJI)
Narun Raman (UBC)
Nicolas Emmenegger (MIT)
Nikolas Patris (UC Irvine)
Nikhil Garg (Cornell Tech)
Nivasini Ananthakrishnan (UC Berkeley)
Panayotis Mertikopoulos (CNRS)
Phevos Paschalidis (MIT)
Pinyan Lu (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
Pravesh Kothari (Princeton)
Rachel Li (MIT)
Rad Niazadeh (Univ. of Chicago)
Rahul Savani (Univ. of Liverpool)
Rebecca Reiffenhäuser (Univ. of Amsterdam)
Roberto Colomboni (Univ. of Bristol)
Rohan Chauhan (UC Irvine)
Sai Ganesh Nagarajan (Univ. of Southern Denmark)
Sam Taggart (Oberlin College)
Sarah Cen (CMU)
Serena Wang (UBC)
Shaddin Dughmi (USC)
Shuran Zheng (Tsinghua University)
Sid Banerjee (Cornell)
Sikata Sengupta (UPenn)
Simina Brânzei (Purdue)
Simone Di Gregorio (Sapienza)
Sophie Greenwood (Cornell)
Sophie Klumper (CWI)
Sotiris Kanellopoulos (NTUA and Archimedes/Athena RC)
Stavros Ioannidis (Royal Holloway)
Stefano Leonardi (Sapienza)
Steven DiSilvio (MIT)
Suat Evren (MIT)
Talya Eden (Bar Ilan University)
Thanos Tolias (NTUA, Archimedes/Athena RC)
Themis Gouleakis (Nanyang Technological University)
Themistoklis Melissourgos (Univ. of Essex)
Tomer Ezra (TAU)
Valia Efthymiou (MIT)
Vangelis Markakis (AUEB)
Vardis Kandiros (Columbia)
Vasilis Christoforidis (AUTH and Archimedes)
Vasilis Gkatzelis (Drexel)
Vatsal Sharan (USC)
Vijay Vazirani (UC Irvine)
Vivian Yvonne Nastl (Max Planck, ETH)
Xiao Wang (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
Yang Cai (Yale)
Yatong Chen (MPI for intelligent systems)
Yeganeh Ali Mohammadi (USC)
Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri (Nanyang Technological University)
Yoav Kolumbus (Cornell)
Yuqing Kong (Peking University)
Yury Makarychev (TTIC)
Yuval Dagan (TAU)
Zhihao Tang (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
Social Coordinators
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