Dr Alexandros Voudouris

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Email
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Location
1NW.3.9, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
Autumn Term: Thursdays 11-1; Please email me first to arrange a meeting.
Profile
Biography
I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE), ÌÇÐÄVlog, UK. Prior to this, I was a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the same institution (April 2020 - September 2023) and a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford (October 2018 - March 2020). I obtained my PhD in computer science in September 2018 from the University of Patras, Greece. My research interests lie at the intersection of theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, and microeconomic theory. I am highly interested in the design and analysis of simple algorithms for fundamental problems in algorithmic game theory and computational social choice. For more information about me, please visit my personal page .
Qualifications
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Fellowship Higher Education Academy,
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PhD University of Patras,
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MSc University of Patras,
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Diploma (5-year degree) University of Patras,
Appointments
ÌÇÐÄVlog
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Director, Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents (CCFEA), ÌÇÐÄVlog (1/8/2024 - present)
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Senior Lecturer, Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, ÌÇÐÄVlog, ÌÇÐÄVlog (1/10/2023 - present)
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Lecturer, Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, ÌÇÐÄVlog (1/4/2020 - 30/9/2023)
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UG Theme Lead (Computer Science), School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, ÌÇÐÄVlog (1/9/2023 - present)
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PGT Theme Lead (Computational Finance), School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, ÌÇÐÄVlog (1/9/2023 - present)
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PGT Selector (CCFEA), School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, ÌÇÐÄVlog (1/9/2021 - present)
Other academic
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Postdoctoral researcher, Computer Science, University of Oxford (1/10/2018 - 31/3/2020)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Algorithmic Game Theory
Computational Social Choice
Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Algorithmic Mechanism Design
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Team Project Challenge (CE101)
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Introduction to Programming with C (CE150)
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Introduction to Financial Market Analysis (CF961)
Previous supervision

Degree subject: Computational Finance
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 23/5/2024
Publications
Publications (4)
Amanatidis, G., Anshelevich, E., Jerrett, C. and Voudouris, AA., (2024). Metric Distortion under Group-Fair Objectives
Voudouris, AA., (2023). Tight Distortion Bounds for Distributed Single-Winner Metric Voting on a Line
Deligkas, A., Filos-Ratsikas, A. and Voudouris, AA., (2023). Truthful Interval Covering
Lotfi, M. and Voudouris, AA., (2023). On Truthful Constrained Heterogeneous Facility Location with Max-Variant Cost
Journal articles (42)
Kanellopoulos, P., Voudouris, A. and Zhang, R., (2025). . Theoretical Computer Science. 1024, 114913-114913
Deligkas, A., Lotfi, M. and Voudouris, A., (2025). Agent-constrained truthful facility location games. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization. 49 (2), 24-
Voudouris, AA., (2025). Metric Distortion of Obnoxious Distributed Voting. Information Processing Letters. 189, 106559-106559
Deligkas, A., Filos-Ratsikas, A. and Voudouris, AA., (2025). Special issue on Economics and Computation. Information Processing Letters, 106578-106578
Anshelevich, E., Filos-Ratsikas, A., Jerrett, C. and Voudouris, A., (2025). . Artificial Intelligence. 341, 104295-104295
Caragiannis, I., Filos-Ratsikas, A., Nath, S. and Voudouris, A., (2024). . Mathematical Programming. 203 (1-2), 871-900
Lotfi, M. and Voudouris, AA., (2024). . Operations Research Letters. 52, 107060-107060
Filos-Ratsikas, A., Kanellopoulos, P., Voudouris, AA. and Zhang, R., (2024). . Artificial Intelligence. 328, 104066-104066
Filos-Ratsikas, A. and Voudouris, A., (2024). . Theory of Computing Systems. 68 (5), 1138-1159
Amanatidis, G., Birmpas, G., Filos-Ratsikas, A. and Voudouris, A., (2024). . SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics. 38 (1), 1007-1029
Deligkas, A., Filos-Ratsikas, A. and Voudouris, A., (2024). . Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. 38 (2), 41-
Kanellopoulos, P., Voudouris, A. and Zhang, R., (2023). . SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics. 37 (2), 779-799
Deligkas, A., Filos-Ratsikas, A. and Voudouris, A., (2023). . Games and Economic Behavior. 139, 200-215
Voudouris, A., (2023). . Operations Research Letters. 51 (3), 266-269
Amanatidis, G., Aziz, H., Birmpas, G., Filos-Ratsikas, A., Li, B., Moulin, H., Voudouris, AA. and Wu, X., (2023). . Artificial Intelligence. 322, 103965-103965
Kanellopoulos, P., Kyropoulou, M. and Voudouris, A., (2023). . Theoretical Computer Science. 971, 114065-114065
Caragiannis, I., Kanellopoulos, P. and Voudouris, AA., (2022). . Algorithmica. 84 (1), 234-271
Amanatidis, G., Birmpas, G., Filos-Ratsikas, A. and Voudouris, A., (2022). . Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. 74, 227-261
Anshelevich, E., Filos-Ratsikas, A. and Voudouris, A., (2022). . Artificial Intelligence. 308, 103713-103713
Kampouridis, M., Kanellopoulos, P., Kyropoulou, M., Melissourgos, T. and Voudouris, A., (2022). . AI Communications: the European journal on artificial intelligence. 35 (4), 369-380
Caragiannis, I., Shah, N. and Voudouris, AA., (2022). . Artificial Intelligence. 313, 103802-103802
Elkind, E., Gan, J., Obraztsova, S., Rabinovich, Z. and Voudouris, AA., (2021). . Artificial Intelligence. 290, 103401-103401
Birmpas, G., Gan, J., Hollender, A., Marmolejo-CossÃo, FJ., Rajgopal, N. and Voudouris, AA., (2021). . Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. 72, 507-531
Amanatidis, G., Birmpas, G., Filos-Ratsikas, A., Hollender, A. and Voudouris, AA., (2021). . Theoretical Computer Science. 863, 69-85
Amanatidis, G., Birmpas, G., Filos-Ratsikas, A. and Voudouris, AA., (2021). . Artificial Intelligence. 296, 103488-103488
Bullinger, M., Suksompong, W. and Voudouris, AA., (2021). . Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. 71, 143-174
Agarwal, A., Elkind, E., Gan, J., Igarashi, A., Suksompong, W. and Voudouris, AA., (2021). . Artificial Intelligence. 301, 103576-103576
Caragiannis, I. and Voudouris, A., (2021). . Mathematics of Operations Research. 46 (2), 503-523
Kanellopoulos, P., Kyropoulou, M. and Voudouris, AA., (2021). . Theoretical Computer Science. 880, 1-19
Anshelevich, E., Filos-Ratsikas, A., Shah, N. and Voudouris, AA., (2021). . ACM SIGecom Exchanges. 19 (1), 12-14
Madhja, A., Nikoletseas, S. and Voudouris, AA., (2020). . Computer Networks. 168, 107068-107068
Filos-Ratsikas, A., Micha, E. and Voudouris, AA., (2020). . Artificial Intelligence. 286, 103343-103343
Kyropoulou, M., Suksompong, W. and Voudouris, AA., (2020). . Theoretical Computer Science. 841, 110-123
Voudouris, AA., (2020). . Theoretical Computer Science. 842, 6-17
Caragiannis, I., Krimpas, G. and Voudouris, A., (2020). . ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation. 8 (3), 1-37
Gan, J., Suksompong, W. and Voudouris, AA., (2019). . Mathematical Social Sciences. 101, 104-106
Voudouris, AA., (2019). . Information Processing Letters. 143, 28-33
Caragiannis, I., Chatzigeorgiou, X., Krimpas, GA. and Voudouris, AA., (2019). . Artificial Intelligence. 267, 58-77
Madhja, A., Nikoletseas, S. and Voudouris, AA., (2019). . Computer Networks. 152, 87-97
Abed, F., Caragiannis, I. and Voudouris, AA., (2018). . Algorithmica. 80 (1), 48-72
Caragiannis, I., Chatzigeorgiou, X., Kanellopoulos, P., Krimpas, GA., Protopapas, N. and Voudouris, AA., (2017). . Artificial Intelligence. 248, 9-25
Caragiannis, I. and Voudouris, AA., (2016). . Theory of Computing Systems. 59 (4), 581-599
Books (2)
(2022). Algorithmic Game Theory - 15th International Symposium, SAGT 2022, Colchester, UK, September 12-15, 2022, Proceedings. Springer. 3031157133. 978-3-031-15713-4
Kanellopoulos, P., Kyropoulou, M. and Voudouris, AA., (2022). Preface
Conferences (46)
Anshelevich, E., Filos-Ratsikas, A., Jerrett, C. and Voudouris, AA., (2024). Improved Metric Distortion via Threshold Approvals
Deligkas, A., Filos-Ratsikas, A. and Voudouris, A., (2024). Truthful Interval Covering
Latifian, M. and Voudouris, A., (2024). The Distortion of Threshold Approval Matching
Deligkas, A., Lotfi, M. and Voudouris, AA., (2024). Agent-Constrained Truthful Facility Location Games
Deligkas, A., Lotfi, M. and Voudouris, AA., (2024). Agent-Constrained Truthful Facility Location Games
Filos-Ratsikas, A. and Voudouris, A., (2023). Revisiting the Distortion of Distributed Voting
Filos-Ratsikas, A., Kanellopoulos, P., Voudouris, A. and Zhang, R., (2023).
Kanellopoulos, P., Voudouris, A. and Zhang, R., (2023). Truthful Two-Facility Location with Candidate Locations
Anshelevich, E., Filos-Ratsikas, A., Jerrett, C. and Voudouris, AA., (2023). Improved Metric Distortion via Threshold Approvals
Kanellopoulos, P., Voudouris, AA. and Zhang, R., (2023). Truthful Two-Facility Location with Candidate Locations.
Anshelevich, E., Filos-Ratsikas, A. and Voudouris, AA., (2022).
Caragiannis, I., Shah, N. and Voudouris, A., (2022). The Metric Distortion of Multiwinner Voting
Habbab, F., Kampouridis, M. and Voudouris, A., (2022).
Amanatidis, G., Birmpas, G., Filos-Ratsikas, A. and Voudouris, AA., (2022). Fair Division of Indivisible Goods: A Survey
Kanellopoulos, P., Kyropoulou, M. and Voudouris, A., (2022). Not all Strangers are the Same: The Impact of Tolerance in Schelling Games
Amanatidis, G., Birmpas, G., Filos-Ratsikas, A. and Voudouris, AA., (2022). Fair Division of Indivisible Goods: A Survey
Kanellopoulos, P., Voudouris, A. and Zhang, R., (2022).
Deligkas, A., Filos-Ratsikas, A. and Voudouris, AA., (2022). Heterogeneous Facility Location with Limited Resources
Caragiannis, I., Shah, N. and Voudouris, AA., (2022). The Metric Distortion of Multiwinner Voting
Amanatidis, G., Birmpas, G., Filos-Ratsikas, A. and Voudouris, A., (2022). Don't Roll the Dice, Ask Twice: The Two-Query Distortion of Matching Problems and Beyond
Amanatidis, G., Birmpas, G., Filos-Ratsikas, A., Hollender, A. and Voudouris, AA., (2021).
Amanatidis, G., Birmpas, G., Filos-Ratsikas, A. and Voudouris, AA., (2021). A few queries go a long way: Information-distortion tradeoffs in matching
Anshelevich, E., Filos-Ratsikas, A., Shah, N. and Voudouris, AA., (2021). Distortion in Social Choice Problems: The First 15 Years and Beyond
Bullinger, M., Suksompong, W. and Voudouris, A., (2021). Welfare guarantees in Schelling segregation
Filos-Ratsikas, A. and Voudouris, AA., (2021). Approximate mechanism design for distributed facility location
Deligkas, A., Filos-Ratsikas, A. and Voudouris, AA., (2021). Heterogeneous Facility Location with Limited Resources
Agarwal, A., Elkind, E., Gan, J. and Voudouris, AA., (2020).
Amanatidis, G., Birmpas, G., Filos-Ratsikas, A. and Voudouris, AA., (2020). Peeking Behind the Ordinal Curtain: Improving Distortion via Cardinal Queries
Kanellopoulos, P., Kyropoulou, M. and Voudouris, A., (2020).
Birmpas, G., Gan, J., Hollender, A., Marmolejo-Cossio, F., Rajgopal, N. and Voudouris, A., (2020). Optimally Deceiving a Learning Leader in Stackelberg Games
Madhja, A., Nikoletseas, S. and Voudouris, AA., (2019). Mobility-Aware, Adaptive Algorithms for Wireless Power Transfer in Ad Hoc Networks
Kyropoulou, M., Suksompong, W. and Voudouris, AA., (2019).
Elkind, E., Gan, J., Obraztsova, S., Rabinovich, Z. and Voudouris, AA., (2019).
Elkind, E., Gan, J., Igarashi, A., Suksompong, W. and Voudouris, AA., (2019).
Filos-Ratsikas, A., Micha, E. and Voudouris, AA., (2019).
Madhja, A., Nikoletseas, S., Tsolovos, D. and Voudouris, AA., (2018). Peer-to-Peer Energy-Aware Tree Network Formation
Caragiannis, I. and Voudouris, AA., (2018). The Efficiency of Resource Allocation Mechanisms for Budget-Constrained Users
Madhja, A., Nikoletseas, S. and Voudouris, AA., (2018). Adaptive Wireless Power Transfer in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Caragiannis, I., Kanellopoulos, P. and Voudouris, AA., (2017).
Caragiannis, I., Chatzigeorgiou, X., Krimpas, GA. and Voudouris, AA., (2017). Optimizing positional scoring rules for rank aggregation
Caragiannis, I., Krimpas, GA. and Voudouris, AA., (2016). How Effective Can Simple Ordinal Peer Grading Be?
Caragiannis, I., Krimpas, GA., Panteli, M. and Voudouris, AA., (2016). Co-rank: An online tool for collectively deciding efficient rankings among peers
Caragiannis, I., Chatzigeorgiou, X., Kanellopoulos, P., Krimpas, GA., Protopapas, N. and Voudouris, AA., (2015). Efficiency and complexity of price competition among single-product vendors
Abed, F., Caragiannis, I. and Voudouris, AA., (2015). Near-Optimal Asymmetric Binary Matrix Partitions
Caragiannis, I., Krimpas, GA. and Voudouris, AA., (2015).
Caragiannis, I. and Voudouris, AA., (2014). Welfare Guarantees for Proportional Allocations
Reports and Papers (6)
Kanellopoulos, P., Voudouris, AA. and Zhang, R., (2023). Truthful Two-Facility Location with Candidate Locations
Kanellopoulos, P., Kyropoulou, M. and Voudouris, AA., (2022). Not All Strangers Are the Same: The Impact of Tolerance in Schelling Games
Amanatidis, G., Birmpas, G., Filos-Ratsikas, A. and Voudouris, AA., (2022). Don't Roll the Dice, Ask Twice: The Two-Query Distortion of Matching Problems and Beyond
Amanatidis, G., Aziz, H., Birmpas, G., Filos-Ratsikas, A., Li, B., Moulin, H., Voudouris, AA. and Wu, X., (2022). Fair Division of Indivisible Goods: Recent Progress and Open Questions
Kanellopoulos, P., Voudouris, AA. and Zhang, R., (2021). On Discrete Truthful Heterogeneous Two-Facility Location
Caragiannis, I., Filos-Ratsikas, A., Nath, S. and Voudouris, AA., (2020).
Grants and funding
2024
Analysing the behaviour of Atom Bank�s customers with respect to changes in competitors� interest rates
Innovate UK (formerly Technology Strategy Board)
TBC
Innovate UK (formerly Technology Strategy Board)
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