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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Computer Science Department

110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA

Office (Lally 004): +1-518-276-8988

Fax: +1-518-276-4033

E-mail: caskub@cs.rpi.edu

 

 
       
 

I received my B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Bilkent  University, in 2003. After graduation, I started my graduate studies at RPI and received my M.S. degree in Computer Science in 2006 under supervision of Petros Drineas.

I am currently pursuing my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute under supervision of  Elliot Anshelevich.

My main research interest is Algorithmic Game Theory, especially network formation and routing games. I'm also interested in analysis and design of approximation algorithms and convex optimization.

My CV can be found here.

Publications:

1. Exact and Approximate Equilibria for Optimal Group Network Formation, with Elliot Anshelevich,  ESA 2009. [.pdf]

2.  Price of Stability in Survivable Network Design, with Elliot Anshelevich, SAGT 2009. [.pdf]

3.  Adaptive Algorithms for VPN Tree Maintenance in the Hose Model, Master's Thesis, 2006. [.pdf]

Ongoing Projects:

1.  Collective Immunization of Selfish Agents, with Elliot Anshelevich and Ameya Hate.

2.   Pricing in Network-Coded Broadcast Networks, with Elliot Anshelevich, Koushik Kar and Hang Zhang.