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Edwin Lock

Postdoctoral researcher
Computer Science Department
Oxford University

About me

I’m a postdoctoral researcher at the Computer Science Department at Oxford University.

Research interests: algorithms & complexity, algorithmic game theory, auctions and markets.

I’m currently focusing on computational questions arising in auctions and markets with many participants and goods. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, I also co-founded Test and Contain, a project to design and implement a resource-optimal testing and containment mechanism that helps protect the health and livelihoods of those hardest hit in low to middle income countries. This work was supported by an ACM GCEC’20 grant and won a best paper award at EC’23.

Prior to my doctoral studies in Computer Science at Oxford, I completed a BSc in Mathematics at FernUniversität Hagen and an MSc in Mathematics and Computer Science at Oxford University. I also hold a BA in Music from Oxford.

News

June-July 2025

I will be visiting Ariel Procaccia as a Visiting Scholar in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

March 2025

I’m giving an invited seminar talk at JPMorgan AI Research in New York.

February 2025

I’m presenting my paper on “Decentralized Convergence to Equilibrium Prices in Trading Networks” at AAAI’25 in Philadelphia.

January 2025

My new paper on “Accelerated Preference Elicitation with LLM-Based Proxies” is available on Arxiv.