Scholar
Kira Goldner
Google Scholar ID: 3Gk0uc8AAAAJ
Boston University
Citations & Impact
Citations
307
H-index
11
i10-index
11
Publications
20
Co-authors
23
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Awarded the NSF CAREER Award for 'Multidimensional Utility Maximization when Ordeals are Payments'.
- Spotlight paper 'Multidimensional Bayesian Utility Maximization' accepted at NeurIPS 2025.
- Paper 'Bilateral Trade with Interdependent Values: Information vs. Approximation' accepted at EC 2025.
- FOCS 2023 paper 'A Constant Approximation for Private Interdependent Valuations' featured at Highlights Beyond EC 2024.
- Presented two papers at SAGT 2024: 'To Regulate or Not to Regulate' and 'Non-Adaptive Matroid Prophet Inequalities'.
- Organized the inaugural BEACH Day workshop on April 4, 2025.
- Gave talks at the SLMath/MSRI Program on the Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design in September 2024.
Background
- Shibulal Family Career Development Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences, Boston University; affiliated with Computer Science and member of the Algorithms & Theory group.
- Primary research interests in algorithmic mechanism design and approximation algorithms, especially using these techniques to improve access to rights and opportunities or mitigate global harms.
- Co-founded the Mechanism Design for Social Good initiative.
- Interested in intersections with healthcare, climate change, law, AI ethics, as well as foundational topics like revenue maximization and behavioral/informational assumptions.
- Founder and Director of BEACH (Behavioral Models in EconCS).
