Daskalakis was born in Athens on 29 April 1981.[6] His grandparents originated from Crete, where he summered as a child. His parents were high school teachers of mathematics and literature.[7][8] He has a younger brother, Nikolaos Daskalakis, who is a neuroscientist and Boston University professor.[9][10] When Daskalakis was in third grade, his father bought an Amstrad CPC, which Daskalakis stayed up all night with, attempting to learn how it worked.[11]
From 2008 to 2009, Daskalakis was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research mentored by Jennifer Chayes. He joined MIT in 2009 and was given tenure in 2015.[13]
He is a co-founder and chief scientist of Archimedes AI research center.[citation needed]
In 2018, Daskalakis was awarded the Nevanlinna Prize for "transforming our understanding of the computational complexity of fundamental problems in markets, auctions, equilibria and other economic structures."[17] In the same year, he also received the Simons Foundation Investigator award in theoretical computer science.[18]
He was named to the 2022 class of ACM Fellows "for fundamental contributions to algorithmic game theory, mechanism design, sublinear algorithms, and theoretical machine learning".[19]
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Daskalakis was the doctoral advisor of former MIT student Qinxuan Pan until Pan's arrest in May 2021 for the murder of Kevin Jiang.[20]
↑Daskalakis, Constantinos; Goldberg, Paul W.; Papadimitriou, Christos H. (2009). "The Complexity of Computing a Nash Equilibrium". SIAM Journal on Computing. 39 (1): 195–259. CiteSeerX10.1.1.152.7003. doi:10.1137/070699652. ISSN0097-5397.
