Amir Ronen

Amir Ronen
Amir Ronen
Born	1965 (age 58–59)
Nationality	Israeli
Alma mater	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Occupation	Computer scientist
Awards	Gödel Prize (2012)

Amir Ronen (born 1965) is an Israeli computer scientist.

Biography

Ronen studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he earned a B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. successively. He then pursued postdoctoral research at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. After spending a few years as an assistant professor at the Technion, he joined the IBM Research Center in Haifa.

In 2012, Ronen received the Gödel Prize, along with Elias Koutsoupias, Christos Papadimitriou, Tim Roughgarden, Noam Nisan, and Eva Tardos, for initiating and developing a new field of research called Algorithmic Mechanism Design (AMD).^[1]^[2]^[3] This field integrates concepts from theoretical economics and game theory (Nash equilibrium) with computer science concepts such as algorithm design and complexity theory.

Ronen's work spans various areas, including algorithmic game theory, social network analysis, machine learning, and strategic analysis.

^ "ACM SIGACT Presents Gödel Prize for Research that Illuminated Effects of Selfish Internet Use — Association for Computing Machinery". acm.org. 2012-07-12. Archived from the original on 2012-07-12. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
^ Nisan, Noam; Ronen, Amir (1999-05-01). "Algorithmic mechanism design (Extended abstract)". Proceedings of the thirty-first annual ACM symposium on Theory of Computing. STOC '99. New York, NY, US: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 129–140. doi:10.1145/301250.301287. ISBN 978-1-58113-067-6.
^ Nisan, Noam; Ronen, Amir (2001-04-01). "Algorithmic Mechanism Design". Games and Economic Behavior. 35 (1): 166–196. doi:10.1006/game.1999.0790. ISSN 0899-8256.