Hi, thanks a lot for your interest in my work. My name is Fasoulakis Michail (Michalis) and I come from Crete. I am an (Applied) Mathematician and (theoretical) Computer Scientist with a background and interest in (Computational) Economics/Game theory/Operations Research and Computer Engineering.

Currently, I am an affiliated researcher with the ICS-FORTH and with the Theory Group of the department of Informatics of Athens University of Economics and Business. Furthermore, I am currently a visiting instructor at CS department of the University of Crete, teaching the course "Introduction to Game Theory".

My research interests lie in basic and fundamental topics (in abstract structures) for Algorithms, Game theory/Decision theory, Optimization, Mathematics of Information (Information theory), and their (theoretical) applications, especially, in AI/ML, Communications and Signal Processing, Economics and Operations Research.

My main goal is to try to contribute in research introducing new mathematical/theory concepts, or solving analytically/algorithmically abstract problems in these research areas that can be potentially applied in real applications. Furthermore, I am interested in solving problems in specific applications of these areas.

More specifically, with my coauthors, I have intensively worked in issues of game theory and their algorithmic view, like the computation of (approximate) Nash equilibria. This line of work had as a result the following selected contributions:

• A. Deligkas, M. Fasoulakis, E. Markakis."A polynomial-time algorithm for 1/3-approximate Nash equilibria in bimatrix games". Journal version: ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG) 2023, Conference version: ESA 2022.

"In this publication we give a polynomial-time algorithm for computing (1/3+δ)-Nash equilibria, giving the best bound for approximate Nash equilibria at the moment of publication, an improvement for a fundamental problem in algorithmic game theory open for 15 years."

• A. Deligkas, M. Fasoulakis, E. Markakis. "A polynomial-time algorithm for 1/2-well-supported Nash equilibria in bimatrix games". Journal version: SIAM Journal on Computing (SICOMP) 2023, Conference version: SODA 2023.

"In this publication we give a polynomial-time algorithm for computing (1/2+δ)-well-supported Nash equilibria, giving the best bound for approximate well-supported Nash equilibria at the moment of publication, an improvement for a fundamental problem in algorithmic game theory open for 7 years."

• M. Fasoulakis, E. Markakis, Y. Pantazis, and C. Varsos. "Forward Looking Best-Response Multiplicative Weights Updated Methods for bilinear zero-sum games". AISTATS 2022.

"In this publication we give a learning algorithm for last iterate convergence in zero-sum bimatrix games (a fundamental class of bimatrix games in game theory)."

My academic background is a mix of (theoretical) Computer Science, (Applied) Mathematics, Computer Engineering and (Computational) Microeconomics/Operations Research, having almost 20 years of Education/Research experience.

Particularly, I hold a Ph.D. in (Theoretical) Computer Science (Specifically in Computational Economics/Game Theory) from the department of Computer Science of the University of Warwick, UK, where during my Ph.D. studies I was a member of the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications (DIMAP).

After my Ph.D. studies I had postdoc/research fellow positions in various academic places such as Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Center for Mathematics and Computer Science in Netherlands - Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica/CWI (as an ERCIM fellow), FORTH (as a Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)-FORTH fellow for a period), School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), University of Crete.

Furthermore, I hold a M.Sc. in Computation & Game Theory (Computational Economics) from the CS department of the University of Liverpool, UK, and a B.Sc. in CS (from the CS department), a second B.Sc. in Mathematics (from the Mathematics and Applied Mathematics department) and a M.Sc. in Communications & Signal Processing (Computer Engineering) (from the CS department), all of these three degrees from the University of Crete. During my under/post graduate studies in Crete I was a member of the Telecommunications and Networks Laboratory of the ICS-FORTH (Institute of CS, Foundation for Research & Technology-Hellas).