Welcome to my webpage! My name is Atanas Dinev and I am third-year Ph.D. student at the Operations Research Center at MIT where I am advised by Prof. Thodoris Lykouris.

My research interests broadly lie in sequential decision-making, machine learning, online algorithms, game theory and their applications to online marketplaces and platforms. I am also generally interested in revenue management and applied modelling.

Prior to joining MIT, I graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with Bacherlor’s degree in Mathematics. While at Princeton, I worked with Prof. Matt Weinberg on projects in Algorithmic Game Theory and Algorithms Under Uncertainty. Here is my CV

Publications

Social Learning with Bounded Rationality: Negative Reviews Persist under Newest First
with Jackie Baek and Thodoris Lykouris
Submitted to Operations Research

• 25th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC 2024)
• INFORMS Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Conference (MSOM 2024)
• INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Conference (RMP 2024)

Simple and Optimal Online Contention Resolution Schemes for k-uniform matroids
with S. Matthew Weinberg

• 15th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2024)

Tight bounds on 3-team manipulations in Randomized Death Match
with S. Matthew Weinberg

• 18th Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE 2022)

Teaching Experience

Data, Models, and Decisions (15.060), Fall 2024, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Teaching Assistant

The Analytics Edge (15.071), Spring 2024, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Head Teaching Assistant

Economics and Computation (COS 445), Spring 2022, Princeton University