Amir Ronen (; born 1965) is an Israeli

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Biography

Ronen studied at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; ) is an Israeli public university, public research university based in Jerusalem. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened on 1 April 1925. ...

, where he earned a B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. successively. He then pursued

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and the

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. After spending a few years as an assistant professor at the Technion, he joined the

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Research Center in

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. In 2012, Ronen received the

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, along with Elias Koutsoupias,

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, Tim Roughgarden,

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, and Eva Tardos, for initiating and developing a new field of research called ''Algorithmic Mechanism Design'' (AMD). This field integrates concepts from theoretical

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and

game theory Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions. It has applications in many fields of social science, and is used extensively in economics, logic, systems science and computer science. Initially, game theory addressed ...

(

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) with computer science concepts such as

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design and complexity theory. Ronen's work spans various areas, including

algorithmic game theory Algorithmic game theory (AGT) is an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of game theory and computer science, focused on understanding and designing algorithms for environments where multiple strategic agents interact. This research area com ...

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analysis,

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, and strategic analysis.

Research Papers

Algorithmic Mechanism Design
Games and Economic Behavior 35 (2001): 166–196.
Computationally Feasible VCG Mechanisms

Algorithms For Rational Agents

Mechanism design with incomplete languages

Optimal Auctions are Hard
(April 29, 2002)
On Approximating Optimal Auctions

References

External links

* Research resource

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