Ekaterina Fedorova

Hi! I’m Kat, an EECS PhD student at MIT/UPenn interested in CS Theory and Econ. (she/her or they/them)

Hello! I’m Ekaterina (or Kat), an NSF CSGrad4US fellow and 2nd year EECS PhD student at MIT+UPenn. I am advised by Dr. Chara Podimata.

I’m interested in a combination of theoretical (CS and micro econ) algorithmic game theory topics like strategic classification, no-regret algorithms, and learning more broadly. More concretely, I’m currently working on projects that involve

  • Altruistic agents and collaboration in strategic classification settings
  • Theoretical modeling of strategic + non-myopic agent behavior in recommender systems
  • Allocation mechanisms to strategic agents

Before my time as a CS PhD student, from August 2021 to August 2023, I worked as a full time researcher for Dr. Anna Costello at UChicago. Check out the pre-print of our paper on arxiv! I received a B.A. with majors in statistics and economics from UC Berkeley in May 2021 where I wrote my senior thesis about user-algorithm interactions using hashtags on TikTok.

In my free time, I like to try to spot opossums around my campus and try new teas.

The best way to reach me is at my MIT email: mySurname at mit.edu.