Ron Lavi



Senior Lecturer,
Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management
The Technion, Israel

E-mail:  ronlavi@ie.technion.ac.il
Office: Bloomfield 302
Phone: 04-8294410


I am looking for graduate students who are interested in doing research in auction theory
and in game-theoretic models for computational settings. Interested students can contact
me by email or by phone. Possible list of research topics can be found here.


Courses

Auction Theory (96573) - will be given in the Fall (semester A) of 2006/2007

Research Interests

My research interests are in subjects on the border of Computer Science, Game Theory, and Economics.
I study models that integrate computational and algorithmic theory with game theory and microeconomic
theory. Some representative questions that my research explores are: (i) What are the limits of ex-post
implementability in private value settings. (ii) What other solution concepts can we successfully use  in
a distribution free analysis? (iii) What types of dynamic and detail free mechanisms can we construct?
The motivation for these questions arise from Auction Theory, a research area with theoretical as well
as practical relevance.

Short Bibliography

I joined the Technion in the summer of 2006, after a two-year post-doc at the Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL)
at the California Institute of Technology.  I have a Phd in Computer Science from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
Here is my full  CV. On the informal side, here are some pictures.

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