rvacus [at] irif [dot] fr - CNRS

I have been a ENS de Lyon student from September 2016 to July 2020, where I obtained a master's degree in theoretical Computer Science. I am now a 3rd year PhD student under the supervision of Amos Korman and Pierre Fraigniaud.

Here is my Github page.

I am interested in computational aspects of stochastic systems inspired by animal and human behavior. I focus on groups of individuals (e.g., birds, fishes, insects) facing collective challenges (e.g., navigation and foraging). Specifically, my research involves elementary notions from:

• Distributed computing: Identifying the most efficient way for a group of individuals to perform collective tasks;
• Probability: Accounting for the presence of noise (lack of information, lack of organization, miscommunications, mistakes);
• Game Theory: Taking into account selfish behaviors and competition between individuals.

Click on the book icons (📖) to download the preprint version.

• 📖 On the role of hypocrisy in escaping the tragedy of the commons. Amos Korman & Robin Vacus. Scientific Reports, 11(1):1-9, 2021.
• 📖 Distributed Alignment Processes with Samples of Group Average. Amos Korman & Robin Vacus. IEEE TCNS, 2022.

• 📖 Early Adapting to Trends: Self-Stabilizing Information Spread using Passive Communication. Amos Korman & Robin Vacus. PODC, 2022.

• 📖 On the Role of Memory in Robust Opinion Dynamics. Luca Becchetti, Andrea Clementi, Amos Korman, Francesco Pasquale, Luca Trevisan & Robin Vacus. arXiv:2302.08600, 2023.