Successful candidates are expected to follow the state of the art of the field and also contribute in shaping the research agenda of the company. Current research interest in IOHK includes
(a) incentives for participating users to organize and form pools for collaboration, or more generally reward schemes for collaborative projects,
(b) the study of transaction fees via optimal repeated auctions or by simpler schemes such as posted prices,
(c) incentives for participating in a p2p network in reliable robust ways,
(d) funding of projects by treasuries (participatory budgeting), and incentives for achieving appropriate levels of participation and expertise in large collaborative projects,
(e) mining games and game-theoretic issues related to the tradeoff between latency and consensus in blockchains.
Candidates should hold a PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics or a related field and have an excellent research record.
For more information and for applying, please use https://iohk.io/careers/#op-305918-research-fellow <https://iohk.io/careers/#op-305918-research-fellow>, mentioning in your application it is for the game theory position.
**********************************************************
*
* Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to
*
* DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de
*
* Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be
* addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The
* original sender, however, is invited to prepare an
* update of the replies received and to communicate it
* via DMANET.
*
* DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET)
* http://www.zaik.uni-koeln.de/AFS/publications/dmanet/
*
**********************************************************
Posts
