About the Authors
Alon Eden
Alon Eden
Postdoctoral Fellow
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, USA
aloneden[ta]seas[td]harvard[td]edu
https://aloneden.github.io
Alon Eden is a postdoctoral fellow in the Harvard EconCS group under the supervision of Yiling Chen and David Parkes. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University in 2019 under the supervision of Prof. Michal Feldman and Prof. Amos Fiat. He was awarded the Michael B. Maschler Prize of the Israeli Chapter of the Game Theory Society for the best Ph.D. thesis of 2019. He received a Best Paper award at SAGT'17 and a Best Paper with Lead Student Author award at EC'19. He enjoys socially distancing with his family while traveling the outdoors.
Uriel Feige
Uriel Feige
Professor
Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
The Weizmann Institute
Rehovot, Israel
uriel[td]feige[ta]weizmann[td]ac[td]il
www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~feige
Born in Jerusalem, Uriel Feige earned his B.Sc. from the Technion, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science, both under the guidance of Adi Shamir. After conducting postdoctoral research at Princeton University and at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, he joined the Weizmann Institute in 1992. From 2004-2007, he took leave from the Weizmann Institute to work with the Theory Group at Microsoft Research, and he continues to serve as a visiting researcher in Microsoft Research, Herzliya. His main research areas are algorithms, computational complexity, and algorithmic game theory. His work was recognized by some awards, including the 2001 Gödel Prize and the 2005 SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize. He enjoys playing the piano, some sports activities, and spending time with his family.
Michal Feldman
Michal Feldman
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
and
Microsoft Research Israel
Herzliya, Israel
michal[td]feldman[ta]cs[td]tau[td]ac[td]il
www.cs.tau.ac.il/~mfeldman
Michal Feldman is a Professor of Computer Science in the Blavatnik School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University and a visiting scholar at Microsoft Research (MSR) Herzliya. Her research spans computer science, economics, game theory and operations research. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 2005. She was a visiting professor at Harvard University and Microsoft Research New England (2011-13). She is an Associate Editor of Games and Economic Behavior, Mathematics of Operations Research, ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, and the Journal of Computer and System Sciences. She served as Vice Chair of ACM SIGecom, and PC chair of the leading conference on Economics and Computation (ACM EC 2015). She received multiple Best Paper Awards, and the TAU Rector Award for excellence in teaching. She is an alumna of the Global Young Academy of Sciences, and the Israeli Young Academy of Sciences (and its management committee). She is the recipient of coveted international grants and fellowships, including two ERC grants of the European Research Council, Marie Curie IOF, Alon, ISF and Amazon Research Awards. She was listed in Forbes' list of the 50 most influential women in Israel (2016), and in the The Marker's list of 40 under 40 (2014).