Welcome to Kshipra Bhawalkar's Homepage.

Contact details at Stanford:
Email: kshipra at stanford dot edu
Postal Address:
Department of Computer Science,
Gates 460,
353 Serra Mall,
Stanford, CA 94305-9045
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I am a third year PhD student at Stanford University. My advisor is Prof. Tim Roughgarden.
Research Interests : Algorithmic Game Theory, Algorithms.

I am originally from Pune, India. I completed my BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from Duke University, Durham, NC in 2008.

Publications

Weighted Congestion Games: Price of Anarchy, Universal Worst-Case Examples, Tightness ,
with Martin Gairing and Tim Roughgarden, In ESA 2010.
proceedings version

Welfare Guarantees for Combinatorial Auctions with Item Bidding ,
with Tim Roughgarden, To appear in SODA 2011
latest version

Talks and Posters

Weighted Congestion Games: Price of Anarchy, Universal Worst-Case Examples, Tightness
  • May 2009, Bay Area Game Theory Symposium, University of California, Berkeley; Preliminary Results.
  • May 2011, iAGT Workshop Poster Session, Hebrew University at Jerusalem, Israel.
Welfare Guarantees for Combinatorial Auctions with Item Bidding
  • April, 2011; Technion, Game Theory Seminar.
  • May, 2011; Tel Aviv University, Algorithms Seminar.

Excursions

March 2011 - May 2011, Hebrew University at Jerusalem, Israel; iAGT special semester.
June 2011 - Sept 2011, Intern at Google.