I am an Assistant Professor of Economics and of Computer Science at Harvard. I am also a faculty affiliate of the Harvard Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications and a faculty affiliate of the Institute for Responsible Superintelligence (RESI), where I lead the working group on Game-Theoretic Foundations of AI Safety.
My main research interest is computer-science-inspired economic theory: I use ideas from theoretical computer science to reimagine the foundations of economic-theory models and frameworks. In turn, these new foundations give rise to new TCS questions, which I also study. A high-level introduction to computer-science-inspired economic theory, at an undergraduate level, is given in this 60-minute talk. I am also interested in economic theory and theoretical computer science more broadly. Two examples of my research beyond theory are described in this 20-minute talk on an applied market-design project and this 30-minute talk on algorithmic collusion by large language models.
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, was published in 2022 by Cambridge University Press, with a Chinese translation following in 2025.
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 by Michal Feldman and 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 Sergiu Hart and 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 Gil Kalai and Yoram Moses, and a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well. Concurrently, 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 formerly served as Associate Editor of Mathematics of Operations Research (Game Theory Area) and of the International Journal of Game Theory, and as Information Director of the ACM Special Interest Group on Economics and Computation (ACM SIGecom) as well as of SIGecom Exchanges. In 2024, I co-organized a Communicating Clearly to Market Participants workshop at Stony Brook with Scott Kominers. In 2023 and 2024, I served as Workshop Co-Chair of EC 2023 and of EC 2024. In 2023, I served as Co-Chair of the 34th Stony Brook International Conference on Game Theory, and co-organized the SLMath (MSRI) Summer School on Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design. 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. I am serving or have served on the program committees for SODA 2027, FOCS 2025, EC 2025 (senior program committee), GAMES 2024, FOCS 2023, EC 2020, EC 2019, NetEcon 2019, AAAI 2019, WINE 2018, SAGT 2018, EC 2017, EC 2016, and NetEcon 2016.