I am a Researcher at Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley (MSR-SVC). Till July 2007 I was a post-doc at the University of California at Berkeley, working with Prof. John Chuang. I was a graduate student at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, my advisor was Prof. Noam Nisan. My PhD thesis was on "Strategic Aspects of Computational Markets". I have a M.Sc. in Computer Science and a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics, both from the Hebrew University.


Research Interests: My research interests are in subjects on the border of Computer Science Theory, Game Theory, and Microeconomic Theory. In particular, I am interested in the theoretical foundations of Electronic Commerce.

Academic service:  I am the General Chair of ACM-EC 2014. I am workshop chair for ACM-EC 2013.  I am on the Program Committee of SAGT 2013 and WINE 2013.

I have served as a Senior Program Committee member of ACM-EC 2013, IJCAI 2013 and ACM EC 2012. I have co-organized the Ad Auctions Workshop 2010. In the past I have also served on the Program Committees of Ad Auctions Workshop 2012, SAGT 2011, AMMA 2011, Ad Auctions Workshop 2011, EC 2011, WINE 2010, EC 2010, AAAI 2010, WWW 2010, WINE 2009, EC 2009, IJCAI 2009, the Fourth Workshop on Ad Auctions (SSA workshop 2008), EC 2008 and AAAI 2008.


I have co-organized the The Bay Algorithmic Game Theory Symposium (BAGT).
BAGT 1: Microsoft Research (Mountain View, CA) on February 17, 2006.
BAGT 2: U.C. Berkeley on September 29, 2006.
BAGT 3: Stanford University on April 20, 2007.
BAGT 4: Yahoo! on October 12, 2007.
BAGT 5: Google on April 11, 2008.
BAGT 6: U.C. Berkeley on May 1, 2009.