Emmanouil Vasileios (Manolis) Vlatakis Gkaragkounis is a final year PhD student in Computer Science at Columbia University under the supervision of Mihalis Yannakakis and Rocco Servedio. Before joining Columbia University, he interned at "Athena" Research & Innovation Center in Athens, Greece. He received a Bachelor & MS in ECE Department of National Technical University of Athens, where he was advised by Dimitris Fotakis.

His research interests include: Computation/Machine Learning Theory, Algorithmic Game Theory, Optimization, Computational Complexity and Beyond Worst-case Analysis of Algorithms .