Doctoral (PhD) student in Karma economies

Job description

This Ph.D. position is located at the intersection of multiple domains: we plan to employ tools from Game Theory and Control Theory to model resource allocation problems that belong to diverse engineering domains like traffic, energy, robotics, and more. 

You will have to work towards a dual goal. On the one hand, to further develop the mathematical foundations of the karma games, by deriving rigorous and principled generalizations to complex resource allocation schemes. On the other hand, you will have to engineer these mechanisms and adapt them to practical application domains where they can be impactful and relevant. 

You will collaborate with experts on these different topics, both in the two laboratories involved in the collaboration and withing the network of partners that form the NCCR Automation. You will publish your results in peer-reviewed journals and present them a...