I am an Assistant Professor of Economics and of Computer Science at Harvard. I am also an affiliate of the Harvard Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications. I am interested in both economic theory and theoretical computer science, and in particular I explore computer-science-inspired economics: I aim to harness approaches, aesthetics, and techniques traditionally originating in computer science to derive economically meaningful insights. A high-level introduction at an undergraduate level to what I mean by computer-science-inspired economics is given in this 60-minute talk. A more technical introduction to some of my research interests is given in this 30-minute talk. I have also applied my research to the design of real-life matching markets; this 20-minute talk discusses such an applied market-design project.
My first textbook, Mathematical Logic through Python (Gonczarowski and Nisan), which introduces a new approach to teaching the material of a basic Logic course to Computer Science students, bringing Mathematical Logic into the comfort zone of the ever-growing population of programming-savvy students by tapping into their unique intuitions and strengths, is forthcoming in Cambridge University Press.
Before joining Harvard, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England, and before that briefly also a postdoctoral fellow at the Blavatnik School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University where I was graciously hosted at the Economics and Computation Laboratory by Prof. Michal Feldman and Prof. Amos Fiat.
I received my PhD from the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, the Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering, and the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Sergiu Hart and Prof. Noam Nisan, as an Adams Fellow of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Throughout most of my PhD studies, I was also a long-term research intern at Microsoft Research in Herzliya, where I was fortunate to be mentored by Moshe Babaioff. Prior to that, I received an M.Sc. in Mathematics, in which I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Gil Kalai and Prof. Yoram Moses, and a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well. In concurrence, I also acquired a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in Classical Singing at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.
My doctoral dissertation was recognized with several awards, including the 2018 Michael B. Maschler Prize of the Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society and the ACM SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2018. I am also the recipient of the inaugural ACM SIGecom Award for Best Presentation by a Student or Postdoctoral Researcher at EC'18, of the Best Paper Award at MATCH-UP'19, and of the inaugural INFORMS AMD Michael H. Rothkopf Junior Researcher Paper Prize (first place) for 2020.
I am currently serving as Workshop Co-Chair of EC 2024, as Associate Editor of Mathematics of Operations Research (Game Theory Area) and of the International Journal of Game Theory, as Information Director of the ACM Special Interest Group on Economics and Computation (ACM SIGecom) as well as of SIGecom Exchanges, and on the program commitee for GAMES 2024. In 2023, I served as Co-Chair of the 34th Stony Brook International Conference on Game Theory, and as Workshop Co-Chair of EC 2023. In 2020, I served as (Virtual) Local Chair of EC 2020 (the video-processing guide I wrote for that conference's tech volunteers can be found here). In 2018, I co-organized a tutorial at EC 2018 on the Menu Size of Precise and Approximate Revenue-Maximizing Auctions with Kira Goldner. In 2017, I served as Guest Editor for an ACM XRDS issue dedicated to Algorithmic Game Theory and Gamification (read the introduction to this issue here), and as Poster Session Chair of EC 2017. Iserved on the program committees for FOCS 2023, EC 2020, EC 2019, NetEcon 2019, AAAI 2019, WINE 2018, SAGT 2018, EC 2017, EC 2016, and NetEcon 2016.