Deni Goktas

Algorithms for Games, Markets, and Forecasting

Multiagent Learning Deep Learning Reinforcement Learning Economics Algorithmic Game Theory Forecasting Optimization

Hi, I’m Deni. I am the founder of Simulacrum, a time-series foundation model research and deployment company.

I am an artificial intelligence researcher working at the intersection of economics and computer science. My research focuses on multiagent learning, game theory, and computational economics, with an emphasis on building algorithms for games and markets and applying them to problems in economics, forecasting, and robotics. More recently, my work has centered on AI superforecasters: forecasting models that adapt under distribution shift. My broader research agenda explores the design of structural and universal forecasters that unify ideas from modern deep learning, multiagent learning, and econometrics, with the long-term goal of enabling large-scale simulations of human behavior to improve forecasting, planning, and policy-making.

Denizalp Goktas, Sadie Zhao, Yiling Chen, Amy Greenwald.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR'26).
ICLR'26
Denizalp Goktas, Klára Chura, Alp Emin Guneri, Amy Greenwald.
Appeared in the 2026 Econometric Society Interdisciplinary Frontier Economics and AI+ML Meeting (ESIF-AIML'26).
ESIF-AIML'26
Denizalp Goktas, Amy Greenwald, Sadie Zhao, Alec Koppel, Sumitra Ganesh.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR'24).
ICLR'24 Spotlight talk at ICLR'24.
Denizalp Goktas, Gerardo Riano, Alif Abdullah, Aryan Nair, Chenkai Shen, Beatriz de Lucio, Alexandra Magnusson, Farhan Mashrur, Ahmed Abdulla, Shawrna Sen, Mahitha Thippireddy, Gregory Schwartz, Amy Greenwald.
Appeared in the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS'25) workshop on "Recent Advances in Time Series Foundation Models: Have We Reached the 'BERT Moment'?", 2025.
NeurIPS'25 Workshop

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