Lior Seeman PhD Student Department of Computer Science Cornell University Address:  Cornell Tech  111 8th Avenue #302  New York, NY 10011 Email: lseeman at cs dot cornell dot edu

I am a fifth year PhD Student at the Computer Science Department of Cornell University. I am privileged to be advised by Joe Halpern and Rafael Pass.
My research interests lie at the intersection of computer science, economics, social science, and cognitive science.
I am interested in game theory, bounded rationality, cryptography, algorithms, social networks, and the interplay between them.

• August 2010 to present: PhD Student, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University.
• Recieved the 2014 Simons Award for Graduate Students in Theoretical Computer Science.
• May 2013 to August 2013: Intern, Google, New York City, New York.
• June 2012 to August 2012: Research Intern, Google Research, Mountain View, Califonia.
• March 2007 to July 2010: FW developer at Intel's Mobile Wireless Group, Israel.
• October 2005 to June 2008: B.Sc. with a double Major in Computer Science and Management, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Graduated Summa cum laude.
• My CV

• Locally Adaptive Optimization: Adaptive Seeding for Monotone Submodular Functions
  with A. Badanidiyuru, C. Papadimitriou, A. Rubinstein and Y. Singer
  [pdf]

• Computational Extensive-From Games
  with J. Halpern and R. Pass
  [pdf]

• Decision theory with resource-bounded agents
  with J. Halpern and R. Pass
  Topics in Cognitive Science Volume 6, Issue 2, pages 245–257, April 2014. [pdf]
  Partially based on content from I'm Doing as Well as I Can: Modelling People as Rational Finite Automata.

• Approximability of Adaptive Seeding under Knapsack Constraints
  with A. Rubinstein and Y. Singer
  Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC 2015), June 2015. [pdf]

• Not Just an Empty Threat: Subgame-Perfect Equilibrium in Repeated Games Played by Computationally Bounded Players
  with J. Halpern and R. Pass
  Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE 2014), December 2014. [pdf]

• The Truth Behind the Myth of the Folk Theorem
  with J. Halpern and R. Pass
  Proceedings of the 5th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science conference (ITCS 2014), January 2014. [pdf]

• Adaptive Seeding in Social Networks
  with Y. Singer
  Proceedings of the The 54th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2013), October 2013. [pdf]

• I'm Doing as Well as I Can: Modelling People as Rational Finite Automata
  with J. Halpern and R. Pass
  Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2012), July 2012. [pdf]

• The Complexity of Social Coordination
  with K. Mamouras, S. Oren, L. Kot, and J. Gehrke
  Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment Volume 5 Issue 11 (VLDB 2012), July 2012. [pdf]

• I'd Rather Stay Stupid: The Advantage of Having Low Utility
  Manuscript, 2011. [pdf]

• Part Time TA, The Structure of Information Networks, Cornell University, Fall 2013.
• Part Time TA, Network Flows, Cornell University, Fall 2012.
• TA, Introduction to Analysis of Algorithms, Cornell University, Spring 2012.
• TA, Introduction to Finance for Undergaduate Students, Tel-Aviv University, Fall 2008 and Spring 2009.