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After obtaining a master’s degree in theoretical Computer Science in ENS de Lyon, I have been a PhD student at IRIF from December 2020 to December 2023, under the supervision of Amos Korman and Pierre Fraigniaud. For my work during this period, I received the 2024 PODC Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Since January 2024, I am a post-doctoral researcher at the Bocconi University of Milan, with Luca Trevisan.

Research interests

I investigate the computational power of simple distributed systems operating in noisy and unreliable environments. Specifically, I study the feasibility of fundamental problems such as information spread and consensus among groups of agents with extremely limited capabilities, with a focus on robustness. This often involves studying discrete stochastic processes and deriving bounds on their convergence times. The ultimate goal of my research is to gain insights into biological ensembles and, eventually, to better understand natural systems and phenomena. To this end, the settings I consider sometimes incorporate game theory in order to account for selfish behaviors.

Contact information

  Robin Vacus
  Postdoctoral researcher

  Department of Computing Sciences, office 4-A3-03
  Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
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  Email: robin.vacus(at)unibocconi.it