1. Educational Background (in reverse chronological order)：

• 1977-1982: University of California, Berkeley, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, M.S. and Ph.D. (Full-time)
• 1972-1977: National Technical University of Athens, Greece, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Diploma (Full-time)

 

2. Work Experience (in reverse chronological order)：

• August 2021-present: Presidential Chair Professor, School of Data Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong at Shenzhen.
• September 2013 – August 2021: Professor and Associate Head of Pillar (ESD Pillar), Singapore University of Technology and Design, Head of the Graduate Committee (ESD Pillar), Director of the Centre for Smart Systems (CS2), and Co-Director of the SUTD-LTA Center for Transportation Research.
• 1999 – September 2013: Professor, Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Director, Theory, Economics and Systems Lab at AUEB, and Head, Network Economics and Systems Group (NES).
• 1990-1999: Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.
• 1990-2000: Head, Telecommunications and Networks Division, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece. Director of the Network Infrastructure Team at the University of Crete, responsible for the management of the infrastructure and the networking services to over 16,000 students and faculty.
• 1982-1990: Member of Technical Staff, Mathematical Sciences Research Centre, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA.

Network Economics and Game theory ，Smart Transportation and Applications of AI ，Sharing Economy Smart Grids & Energy Systems Economics Network Performance Analysis and Optimization 1.Core Research Interests:
Network Economics and Game theory
Smart Transportation and Applications of AI
Sharing Economy
Smart Grids & Energy Systems Economics
Network Performance Analysis and Optimization

2.Interdisciplinary Research Fields:
Smart City Systems (Integrating Data Science, Transportation Engineering, and Urban Planning)
Energy-Transportation Coupled Systems (Focusing on Electric Vehicle-Grid Integration)
Computational Economics (Involving Cloud/Grid Computing and Resource Sharing Markets)

https://sds.cuhk.edu.cn/en/teacher/473

konstantinoscourcoubetis@slai.edu.cn

Konstantinos Courcoubetis is a Presidential Chair Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and previously served as Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, where he directed the ST-SUTD Centre for Smart Systems.

A pioneer in network economics since the late 1990s, his research focuses on network and Internet economics, the sharing economy, smart grids, auctions, and regulation policy. He has also made foundational contributions to algorithmic verification.

He has published over 100 papers in top journals and conferences and is ranked among the world's top 2% most-cited scientists, with over 18,000 Google Scholar citations. He co-authored the influential book *Pricing Communication Networks*.

He welcomes collaborations and students interested in network economics, sustainable energy systems, and data-driven policy.

Representative Publications (past 5-10 years, in order of impact):

1. Saif Benjaafar, Harald Bernhard, Konstantinos Courcoubetis, Michail Kanakakis, Spyridon Papafragkos. Drivers, Riders and Service Providers: The Impact of the Sharing Economy on Mobility. Management Science, 2022, 68(1):123-142. (UTD24 Top Journal, FT50, Winner of 2021 MSOM Service Management SIG Best Paper Award)

2. Yunpeng Li, Konstantinos Courcoubetis, Lingjie Duan, Richard R. Weber. Optimal Pricing for Peer-to-Peer Sharing with Network Externalities. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2021, 29(1): 206-219. (Premier Networking Journal, CCF A)

3. Shuqin Gao, Konstantinos Courcoubetis, Lingjie Duan. Distributed Double Auction Mechanisms for Large-Scale Device-to-Device Resource Trading. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2023, 31(3): 1300-1313. (Premier Networking Journal, CCF A)

4. Qisheng Huang, Yunjian Xu, Konstantinos Courcoubetis. Strategic Storage Operation in Wholesale Electricity Markets: A Networked Cournot Game Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2021, 8(4): 2943-2957.

5. Qisheng Huang, Yunjian Xu, Konstantinos Courcoubetis. Strategic Production and Trading in Renewable Energy Certificate Markets: Existence, Uniqueness, and Efficiency of Market Equilibria. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2023, 10(4): 1897-1910.

6. Qisheng Huang, Yunjian Xu, Konstantinos Courcoubetis. Stackelberg Competition Between Merchant and Regulated Storage Investment in Wholesale Electricity Markets. Applied Energy, 2022, 323: 119527. (Top Journal in Energy)

7. Stefanos Leonardos, Iosif Sakos, Konstantinos Courcoubetis, Georgios Piliouras. Catastrophe by Design in Population Games: A Mechanism to Destabilize Inefficient Locked-in Technologies. ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, 2023, 11(1-2): 1-36.

8. Pan Lai, Lingjie Duan, Konstantinos Courcoubetis, Stefano Galelli. Economic Controls for Smart Water Distribution Networks Undergoing Supply Failures. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2021, 8(3): 2239-2253.

9. Lynette Cheah, Meijing Zhang, Konstantinos Courcoubetis. Exploring the Potential Impacts of Crowdshipping Using Public Transport in Singapore. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2022, 2676(10): 1-13.

10. Konstantinos Courcoubetis, X. Wu, S. Gao, A. Dimakis. The Impact of Autonomous Vehicles on Ride-Hailing Platforms with Strategic Human Drivers. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 2025 (Accepted, Forthcoming).

11. Qisheng Huang, Yunpeng Li, Bo Liu, Konstantinos Courcoubetis, Gaoqi Liang, Junhua Zhao. Pricing Demand-Side Flexibility via Mean-Field Reverse Stackelberg Game. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2025 (Accepted, Forthcoming).

Books/Monographs:

1. Pricing Communication Networks: Economics, Technology and Modelling. Wiley, 2003. (Co-authored with Richard Weber)

Research Awards:

1. 2023: Presidential Exemplary Teaching Award, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.

2. 2022: MSOM Best OM Paper in Management Science Award, for the paper "Peer-to-Peer Product Sharing...", Manufacturing and Service Operations Society (MSOM), Co-author (4/4).

3. 2021: MSOM Service Management SIG Best Paper Award, INFORMS, Co-author (4/4).

4. 2021: Listed in Stanford University's “World's Top 2% Scientists” list, Stanford University.

5. 2014: Listed as one of the “Top 336 Most Influential Greek Scientists”, by Prof. John Ioannidis, Stanford University.

6. 2011: Future Internet Award for the EU-funded TRILOGY project, ceFIMS Coordination Action, Project Leader.

2010: Test-of-Time Award, LICS (IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science), for the 1990 paper "Model-checking for real-time systems", Co-author (2/3).