Kira Goldner
Shibulal Family Career Development Assistant Professor of Computing & Data Sciences
Kira Goldner is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) at Boston University. Her research interests lie primarily in algorithmic mechanism design and approximation algorithms, particularly in using these techniques to improve access to rights and opportunities or mitigate global harms. Since co-founding the Mechanism Design for Social Good initiative, her research has focused both on furthering the mathematical foundations of "mechanism design for social good," (for example, gains from trade and residual surplus) and domain specific questions (in healthcare, climate change, and privacy). She is also interested in more foundational topics such as revenue maximization, and varied behavioral and informational assumptions. Goldner is also an affiliate in Computer Science, a member of the Algorithms & Theory group, and the director of the Boston Economics & Computing Hub.
Before joining BU in the summer of 2021, Kira Goldner was a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University, supported by NSF Mathematical Sciences and Data Science Institute fellowships. Goldner received her PhD in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, advised by Anna Karlin. She has received many awards for her work, including the 2017 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship and a 2016 Google Anita Borg Scholarship, the EC 2019 Best Paper with a Student Lead Author Award, and the EC 2020 Best Presentation by a Student or Postdoctoral Researcher Award.
Information for prospective students is available on Goldner's personal website.
Research Interests
- EconCS (Algorithmic Mechanism Design and Game Theory)
- Approximation Algorithms