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Parnian ShahkarPhD student, |
About Me
I am a first-year Computer Science PhD candidate at UCI, where I’m fortunate to be advised by Prof.Vijay Vazirani. My main research interests are algorithmic game theory, mechanism design, combinatorial optimization, and randomized algorithms.
Before coming to UCI, I got my M.Sc. in the D-MTEC department at ETH Zurich, where I was advised by Prof. Hans Gersbach and Dr. Akaki Mamageishvili. My master's thesis was about liquid democracy and studying the effect of free vote delegation in proof-of-stake blockchains. I received my B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and a minor degree in Computer Science from Sharif University of Technology. There I worked on machine learning in medicine design under the supervision of Prof. Babak Khalaj. I have also worked as a research assistant at KOF Swiss Economic Institute and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.
Teaching
- Teaching Assistant, Linear Algebra, UCI, Winter 2023
- Teaching Assistant, Communication Systems, Sharif University of Technology, Winter 2020
Projects
- Parnian Shahkar Vote Delegation in a Voting With Weighted Majority Rule, Master's Thesis, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 2022
- Parnian Shahkar, Michael D. König, Martin Wörter, Jakob Roch How were Companies Affected During the First and Second Waves of the Corona Pandemic in Switzerland?, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Switzerland, 2022
- Parnian Shahkar Numerical analysis of a large scale network of spiking neurons, Internship report, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, 2019
Contact
| Email: | shahkarp [AT] uci [DOT] edu |
| Office: | 4099 Donald Bren Hall |