Email: rberker [at] cs [dot] cmu [dot] edu
Office: 6207 Gates and Hillman Centers
Hello! My name is Emin, and I am a second-year PhD student in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, where I am a member of the Foundations of the Cooperative AI Lab (FOCAL). I am fortunate to be advised by Vincent Conitzer.
My research lies in the intersection of artificial intelligence and theoretical computer science. In particular, I enjoy working on topics such as algorithmic game theory, computational social choice, and cooperative AI.
Prior to CMU, I graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University, receiving a joint degree (A.B.) in Chemistry and Physics and Mathematics, with a secondary in Neuroscience, and a concurrent masters (S.M.) in Computer Science. While at Harvard, I had the privilege of being mentored by Ariel Procaccia.
I am originally from 🐈 Istanbul 🐈, where I spent most of life. In my free time I like cooking, hiking, and watching Turkish soap operas at 3x speed.
Publications
The Value of Recall in Extensive-Form Games
Ratip Emin Berker, Emanuel Tewolde, Ioannis Anagnostides, Tuomas Sandholm, and Vincent Conitzer. To appear in the Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-25), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 2025. Oral presentation (4.63% of submissions). [arXiv]
Computing Optimal Equilibria in Repeated Games with Restarts
Ratip Emin Berker and Vincent Conitzer.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-24), Jeju, South Korea, 2024. [Proceedings, arXiv]
Workshop Papers
From Independence of Clones to Composition Consistency: A Hierarchy of Barriers to Strategic Nomination
Ratip Emin Berker, Sílvia Casacuberta, Isaac Robinson, Christopher Ong, Vincent Conitzer, Edith Elkind. In the Economics of Modern ML: Markets, Incentives, and Generative AI Workshop at AAAI 2025.
Obvious Independence of Clones
Ratip Emin Berker, Sílvia Casacuberta Puig, Christopher Ong, and Isaac Robinson. In the 4th International Workshop on Democracy and AI (DemocracAI 2024) at IJCAI 2024. Best student paper award.
How To Filter Out Malicious Encrypted Gradients in Federated Learning
(α-β) Ratip Emin Berker, Jordan Barkin, Sílvia Casacuberta Puig, and Janet Li. In the 5th AAAI Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence (PPAI-24) at AAAI 2024.
Manuscripts
Quantum and Classical Algorithms for Bounded Distance Decoding,
(α-β) Richard Allen, Ratip Emin Berker, Sílvia Casacuberta Puig, and Michael Gul. IACR ePrint, 2022.
[December 2024] Our paper "The Value of Recall in Extensive-Form Games" got accepted as an oral presentation to AAAI-25, which will take place in Philadelphia, PA in February!
[December 2024] I got accepted to the Cooperative AI Foundation's PhD Fellowship!
[October 2024] I attended the Workshop on Simplicity in Mechanism Design and Preference Elicitation at DIMACS Center to present our work on composition consistency and independence of clones.
[August 2024] Our voting rule was chosen as one of the winning rules in the 2nd Computational Social Choice Competition at IJCAI-24!
[July 2024] I attended Human-aligned AI Summer School as an invited speaker.