Ekaterina Fedorova

Hi! I’m Kat, a CS PhD student at UPenn in the intersection of Theory, Econ, and HCI.

Hello! I’m Ekaterina (or Kat), an NSF CSGrad4US fellow and CS PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania (as of Fall 2023). For AY 2024-25, I’ll be a visiting student at MIT EECS.

I’m interested in a combination of theoretical (CS and micro econ) topics like strategic classification, persuasion, and learning more broadly as well as some empirical work in Human-AI interactions. More concretely, I’m currently working on projects that involve

  • Activist 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, try new teas, and participate in various media fandoms online.

You can reach me at my UPenn email: mySurname at seas.upenn.edu or find me on various social media platforms under some iteration of @ek8terina.