Georgios PiliourasI am a senior staff research scientist at Google DeepMind (GDM). Before joining GDM, I was an Associate Professor in the Engineering Systems and Design Pillar at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), where I still hold a role as an adjunct faculty. My main research interests lie in the areas of algorithmic game theory, multi-agent learning, AI Safety, dynamical systems and blockchain. I am broadly interested in studying both the power and capabilties as well as the limitations and risks of systems that arise from the interaction of numerous adapting, intelligent agents. I believe it is important to build this understanding on solid foundations based on combinations of well-developed ideas from diverse fields such as game theory, economics, optimization theory, reinforcement learning, computational complexity, control theory and dynamical systems (e.g., chaos theory). At the same time, it is critical to ground our understanding on the specifics of real-world applications. I have been fortunate to work on a diverse set of real-world markets and applications alongside numerous esteemed collaborators, including:
I received my PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University. Past affiliations include UC Berkeley, California Institute of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology and the Ethereum Foundation. I have been awarded a Singapore NRF Fellowship and a Simons Fellowship. Open positions: We have openings for Research Scientist and Research Engineer positions at the Game Theory Team (Google DeepMind, London office)! Apply now! |
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Talks, Service and News
- Invited talk @ DynaFront: Dynamics at the Frontiers of Optimization, Sampling, and Games, NeurIPS 2025 Workshop, San Diego, December 6-7, 2025.
- Invited keynote @ ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF), Singapore, November 15-18, 2025.
- Invited @ UK AISI Alignment Conference, London, UK, October 29-31, 2025.
- Invited keynote @ Google AI & Life Sciences Summit, Singapore, October 8, 2025.
- Co-organized @ Google Web3 Zero Knowledge & AI Summit, Mountain View, CA, August 13-14, 2025.
- Senior Area Chair @ ICML 2025.
- Two PNAS papers on foundational limitations of game dynamics. One on a topological impossibility result for Nash convergence in general games, and one on a robust route from equilibration to chaos in congestion games such as the El Farol bar problem.
- Co-organized @ Optimization, learning, and games, Conference on Advances in Continuous Optimization (EUROPT 2025), Southampton, UK, 29 June - 2 July 2025.
- Former PhD student Barnabé Monnot is co-lead of protocol at Ethereum Foundation (June 2025). Congratulations!
- Game Theory and Economic Paradigms (GTEP) Area Chair @ AAMAS 2025.
- Invited talk @ Safety-Guaranteed LLMs, Special Year on Large Language Models and Transformers, Simons/UC Berkeley, April 14-18, 2025.
- A survey on Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI.
- Invited keynote @ Decentralized AI (DAI), Singapore, December 17-21, 2024.
- Invited keynote @ AGT@Blockchains, WINE 2024, The 20th Conference on Web and Internet Economics, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, December 2-5, 2024.
- A survey on Auto-bidding and Auctions in Online Advertising.
- Invited tutorial @ 19th Athens Colloquium on Algorithms and Complexity, August 17-20, 2024.
- Program Chair @ Agentic Markets ICML 2024 Workshop, Vienna, Austria, July 27, 2024.
- Invited talk @ Workshop on Algorithms for Learning and Economics, June 17-21, 2024.
- Invited @ Singapore Conference on AI (SCAI) , for the Global Good, Singapore, December 4-6, 2023.
- Invited talk @ 2023 Alpine Game Theory Symposium, Grenoble, France, June 28th, 2023.
- Invited talk @ Mathematics Dept, London School of Economics, London, UK, June 1st, 2023.
- Program Co-Chair @ Games, Learning, and Networks, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NUS, Singapore, April 2023.
- Invited talk @ PNAS Special issue symposium, New Orleans, US, November 30, 2022.
- Stefanos Leonardos has joined King's College London as assistant professor. James P. Bailey has joined RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) as assistant professor. Congratulations to both!
- The slides for my 4 part tutorial on Learning in Games at Simons Institute can be found here Slides. The videos to the 4 parts can are here. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
- Best paper award runner-up for joint paper with Aleksander Czechowski at AAMAS 2022.
- Three papers accepted @ ICLR 2022.
- Three papers accepted @ AAMAS 2022.
- One current and one former group members are on the job market this year. Stefanos Leonardos (co-recipient of AAAI'21 best paper award amongst other accolades) and James P. Bailey (co-recipient of AAMAS'19 best paper award nomination amongst other accolades). Check them out!
- YouTube video/talk of our AAAI best paper work given by Stefanos Leonardos @ State-of-the-Art AI Research channel.
- Program co-chair along with Xiaotie Deng of the Blockchain Track in the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS).
- Three papers (including one spotlight award) accepted @ NeurIPS 2021.
- Two papers accepted @ IEEE Blockchain 2021 including our new paper on Ethereum’s EIP-1559.
- Four papers accepted @ ICML 2021.
- Paper accepted @ ACM AFT 2021. Link to our paper on Ethereum’s EIP-1559.
- Best paper award @ IEEE-TEM for our paper “PREStO: A Systematic Framework for Blockchain Consensus Protocols” with Stefanos Leonardos and Daniel Reijsbergen.
- Area Chair @ NeurIPS 2021.
- Check out our new paper on the dynamics of the EIP-1559 Ethereum fee market.
- Best paper award for joint paper with Stefanos Leonardos at AAAI 2021.
- Invited talk @ Challenges and Opportunities for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (COMARL), Monday March 22, 2021 (online).
- Invited talk @ NYCAC 20-21 (The New York Colloquium on Algorithms and Complexity), Friday, March 19, 2021 (online).
- Two papers accepted @ AAAI 2021.
- My graduating PhD student Sai Ganesh Nagarajan joins the EPFL CS theory group as a postdoc under Prof. Ola Svensson.
- Four papers (including one spotlight talk) accepted @ NeurIPS 2020.
- Two papers accepted @ WINE 2020.
- Postdoc Yun Kuen (Marco) Cheung joins Royal Holloway, University of London as assistant professor.
- Papers accepted @ ICML 2020 and COLT 2020.
- Invited Talk @ NeurIPS workshop on games and learning, (online), December 2020.
- Invited Talk @ Second Symposium on Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems, The Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada (online) September 21 - 25, 2020.
- Invited Talk @ 7th Workshop on Stochastic Methods in Game Theory, Ettore Majorana Centre, Erice July 1-8, 2020. (postponed)
- Invited Talk @ Data, Learning and Inference (DALI) 2020, Costa d'en Blanes, Balearic Islands, Spain, April 13-16, 2020. (postponed)
- Invited Talk @ Challenges and Opportunities for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (COMARL), AAAI 2020, Stanford University, USA, March 23-25, 2020. (postponed)
- Co-organizing Workshop on New Tools for Markets: Information Design and Blockchains, Shonan Village Center, Japan, March 16 - 19, 2020. (postponed)
- Former PhD student Barnabé Monnot joined the Ethereum Foundation as a research scientist (Robust Incentives Group).
- Papers accepted @ ICLR 2020 and AAMAS 2020.
- Five papers (including two spotlight talks) accepted @ NeurIPS 2019.
- Paper accepted @ WINE 2019.
- Invited Talk @ Games, Dynamics and Optimization (GDO2020), Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, February 24 - 26, 2020.
- Postdoc James P. Bailey joins Texas A&M, ISyE Dept. as assistant professor.
- Three day tutorial on Cryptocurrencies and AI @ LUISS visiting International Chair @ Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Rome Italy, May 27-29, 2019.
- Read the first game theoretic analysis of Ethereum's Casper FFG protocol in joint work with Vitalik Buterin, Daniel Reijsbergen and Stefanos Leonardos.
- Best paper award for joint paper with Stefanos Leonardos and Daniel Reijsbergen at IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), 2019.
- Best paper award for joint paper with Nikos Leonardos and Stefanos Leonardos at International Conference on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy (MARBLE) 2019.
- Best paper award nomination for joint paper with James P. Bailey at Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2019.
- Papers accepted @ AAMAS (May 13-17) 2019, ICML (June 10-15) 2019, COLT (June 25-28) 2019.
- Invited Tutorial @ AI Summer School, Singapore, 22-26 July 2019.
- Invited Tutorial @ Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT), Athens, Greece, September 30th, 2019.
- Invited @ Collective Crypto: Exploring the Role of Collective Effects in Crypto Network & Token Design, Santa Fe Institute (SFI), June 12-14, 2019.
- Recent and upcoming program committees: NeurIPS 2019, ICML 2019, EC 2019, SAGT 2019, WINE 2019, ACML 2019, ISAAC 2019, IEEE Blockchain 2019, INFOCOM 2019 Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains for Distributed Systems (CryBlock 2019).
- Invited Talk @ International Conference on Continuous Optimization, (ICCOPT), Technical University (TU) of Berlin, August 3-8, 2019.
- Co-organizing @ 20 Years of the Price of Anarchy, Chania, Greece July 2-5, 2019.
- Two papers accepted @ International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), New Orleans, May 6-9, 2019.
- Invited Talk @ KAUST-MBSC Workshop on Game Theory, April 28-29, 2019.
- Invited Talk @ DeepMind, Paris, April 18, 2019.
- Invited Talk @ Workshop on Network, Population and Congestion Games, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, April 16-17, 2019.
- Invited Talk @ Technical University of Munich (TUM), March 13, 2019.
- Invited Talk @ AAAI-19 Workshop on Reinforcement Learning in Games, Honolulu, US, January 28th, 2019.
- Invited Talk @ Symposium on Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems, London, UK, February 11-13, 2019.
- Research Stay @ DeepMind, London, UK, Fall 2018.
- LUISS visiting International Chair @ Kolmogorov meets Turing Workshop, Rome Italy, November 23, 2018.
- Invited Talk @ Santa Fe Institute (SFI), Santa Fe, NM, November 9, 2018.
- Happy to co-announce the creation of the CBC Casper family of Consensus Protocols @ Ethereum DevCon4. All media inquiries @ Vlad Zamfir.
- Invited Talk @ Ethereum DevCon4, Prague, Czech Republic, October 30th, 2018.
- New Postdoc: We welcome Yun Kuen (Marco) Cheung, PhD in Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University to SUTD.
- Invited Talk @ Blockchain Workshop, Stanford, CA, August 10, 2018.
- Talk by PhD student Sai Ganesh Nagarajan @ Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Stockholm, Sweden, July 11-13, 2018.
- Invited Talk @ Santa Fe Institute (SFI), Santa Fe, NM, June 25, 2018.
- Co-organized @ Blockchain Workshop (SAGT), Beijing, China, September 14, 2018.
- Talk by PostDoc James Bailey @ ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'18), Cornell, June 18, 2018.
- Program Committee CryptoEconomics Security Conference, Berkeley, CA, October 15-16, 2018.
- Program Committee Economics, Monetization, and Online Markets track of The Web Conference 2019, San Francisco, CA, May 13-17, 2019.
- Program Committee Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE), Oxford, UK, December 15-17, 2018.
- Tutorial on Cryptocurrencies @ ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'18) with Jacob Leshno, Arvind Narayanan, Alexandros Psomas and Matt Weinberg, Cornell, NY, June 18, 2018.
- Invited Talk @ Paris Symposium on Game Theory, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France, June 11-15, 2018.
- Invited Talk @ NUS, Singapore, April 23, 2018.
- RChain Developer Conference, Boulder, CO, April 14-18, 2018.
- Invited Talk @ TSIMF Workshop on Algorithmic Game Theory and Internet Economics, Sanya, Hainan, China, March 26-30, 2018.
- Invited Talk @ Internal Ethereum Sharding Research Workshop, Taipei, Taiwan, March 19-21, 2018.
- New Postdoc: We welcome Xiao Wang, Math PhD (Differential geometry), SUNY Buffalo to SUTD.
- Invited Talk @ Asia-Pacific Ethereum Community Meetup, Bangkok, Thailand, February 25, 2018.
- Invited Talk @ Institute of Physics Singapore (IPS) Meeting, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, NTU, Singapore, March 7-9, 2018.
- Talk by PhD student Tushar Vaidya @ Institute of Physics Singapore (IPS) Meeting, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, NTU, Singapore, March 7-9, 2018.
- Talk by PostDoc Thiparat Chotibut @ American Physical Society Meeting, Los Angeles, California, March 5-9, 2018.
- Editor of the Journal of Dynamics and Games. JDG is a publication of the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
- Program Committee ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'18), Cornell, June 18-22, 2018.
- Talk @ Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS), MIT, January 11-14, 2018.
- Talk @ ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), New Orleans, Louisiana, January 7-10, 2018.
- Talk by PhD student Barnabé Monnot @ Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, December 17-20, 2017.
- Singapore NRF Fellowship 2018.>
- New Postdoc: We welcome James Bailey, Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization PhD, ISyE Georgia Tech to SUTD.
- Postdoc Ioannis Panageas joins Costis Daskalakis @ MIT.
- Spotlight Paper @ Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Long Beach, CA, December 4-9 2017.
- Program Committee @ Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT 2018), Beijing, China, 2018.
- Program Committee Web Conference 2018 (WWW'18), Lyon, France, April 23-27, 2018.
- Program Committee AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), New Orleans, Louisiana, February 2-7, 2018.
- Program Committee CryptoEconomics Security Conference, Berkeley, CA, October 2-4, 2017.
- Invited Talk @ Greece Economic and Algorithmic Theory (GREAT) Week, Ikaria, Greece, July 24-28.
- Invited Talk @ Systems Engineering Seminar on Analytics, Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES), May 26, 2017.
- Reunion workshop for the program ``Economics and Computation'' @ Simons Institute, UC Berkeley, April 27-28, 2017.
- Program Committee ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'17), MIT, June 26-30, 2017.
- Invited @ AI Safety and Blockchain at the Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford, UK, December 16-17. 2016.
- Invited Talk @ 6th Workshop on Stochastic Methods in Game Theory, Centro Ettore Majorana, Erice, Sicily, 5-13 May 2017.
- Talk @ Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS), Berkeley, CA, 9-11 January, 2017.
- Invited Talk @ AI in Asia, Hong Kong, 21 November, 2016.
- Hosting Stefan Siegmund @ SUTD, March 15-22, 2017.
- Program Committee, World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Perth, Australia, April 3-7, 2017.
- Hosting Christos Papadimitriou @ SUTD, December 19-20, 2016.
- Program Committee, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, San Francisco, CA, February 4-9, 2017.
- Program Committee, Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS), Berkeley, CA, 9-11 January, 2017.
- Program Committee, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Barcelona, Spain, 5-10 December, 2016.
- Program Committee, Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE), (CWI) Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 11-14, 2016.
- Talk @ ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC '16), Maastricht, Netherlands, July 24-28, 2016.
- PhD Dissertation Committee, Ioannis Panageas' PhD Dissertation Defense (GaTech), Atlanta, GA, July 22, 2016.
- Program Committee, Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT), Liverpool, UK, September 19-21, 2016.
- Invited Talk @ Theory Day in Taiwan, National Tsing Hua University, HsinChu, Taiwan, May 17, 2016.
- UC Berkeley visit, May 8-14, 2016.
- Invited @ Lorenz Center Workshop Game Theory and Evolutionary Biology: Exploring Novel Links, Leiden, Netherlands, April 18-22, 2016.
- Talk @ Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS '16), Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 14-16, 2016.
- Invited Talk @ Schloss Dagstuhl Seminar, Evolution and Computing, Germany, January 4-8, 2016.
- Invited Talk @ National Technical University of Athens, Greece, December 28th, 2015.
- Invited Talk @ 3rd Hausdorff Trimester Program 2015 - Combinatorial Optimization, Hausdorff Research Institute, Bonn, Germany, December 14-18, 2015.
- Invited Talk @ Facebook, Palo Alto, CA, December 7th, 2015.
- Invited Talk @ Stochastic Methods in Game Theory, NUS, Singapore, November 16-20,2015.
- Invited Talk @ EPFL CS Theory Seminar, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 2, 2015.
- Talk @ Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT'15), Max Planck Institute, Germany, September 28-30, 2015.
- Invited Talk @ Econ seminar, NUS, Singapore, August 11, 2015.
- Program Committee, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Phoenix, Arizona USA, February 12-17, 2016.
- Program Committee, Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE), (CWI) Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 9-12, 2015.
- Simons Fellow, Economics and Computation, Berkeley, CA, Fall semester, 2015.