Nicos Protopapas

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University of the Aegean

Office B5, Second Floor

Lymberis Building

2 Palama & Gorgyras Streets

Karlovassi, Samos 83200, Greece

Welcome to my academic website.

I am currently an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering (ICSD) at the University of the Aegean. This semester, I am teaching Discrete Math and Numerical Analysis.

Prior to that, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Archimedes Research Unit at the Athena Research Center, working on the interplay between machine learning and mechanism design.

I have earned my PhD at the University of Liverpool, under the guidance of George Christodoulou, working in problems of mechanism design where monetary transactions are not possible.

My main research interests lie between computer science, economics and artificial intelligence, and mostly revolve around algorithmic game theory and mechanism design.

In the past, I was affiliated with the Efficient Resource Allocation in 5G and Beyond Networks project at the University of Patras, working primarily on game-theoretic aspects of resource allocation in wireless networks. Previous to that I worked as a research assistant at the Citizen-Centric AI systems project of the University of Southampton.

selected publications

  1. NeurIPS
    Online Fair Division Meets Reordering Buffers
    Georgios Amanatidis, Giulio Giaconi, Evangelos Markakis, and 1 more author
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026
    Accepted; Spotlight presentation
  2. TEAC
    Fairness under Equal-Sized Bundles: Impossibility Results and Approximation Guarantees
    Alviona Mancho, Evangelos Markakis, and Nicos Protopapas
    ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, Aug 2026
  3. AIJ
    Truthful aggregation of budget proposals with proportionality guarantees
    Ioannis Caragiannis, George Christodoulou, and Nicos Protopapas
    Artif. Intell., Aug 2024
  4. WWW
    Impartial selection with prior information
    Ioannis Caragiannis, George Christodoulou, and Nicos Protopapas
    In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, May 2023