Annie Liang

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Curriculum Vitae

Positions

2024–presentAssociate Professor of Economics (with tenure), Northwestern University
2024–presentAssociate Professor of Computer Science (by courtesy), Northwestern University
2021–2024Assistant Professor of Economics, Northwestern University
2017–2020Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
2016–2017Postdoctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research New England

Education

2016Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University
2011S.B. in Mathematics and S.B. in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Published Papers

  1. Algorithm Design: A Fairness-Accuracy Frontier (with Jay Lu, Xiaosheng Mu, and Kyohei Okumura), Journal of Political Economy, 2026
  2. Data and Incentives (with Erik Madsen), Theoretical Economics, 2024
  3. Algorithmic Fairness and Social Welfare (with Jay Lu), AEA Papers & Proceedings, 2024
  4. How Flexible is that Functional Form? Quantifying the Restrictiveness of Theories (with Drew Fudenberg and Wayne Gao), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023
  5. Measuring the Completeness of Economic Models (with Drew Fudenberg, Jon Kleinberg, and Sendhil Mullainathan), Journal of Political Economy, 2022
  6. Dynamically Aggregating Diverse Information (with Xiaosheng Mu and Vasilis Syrgkanis), Econometrica, 2022
  7. Complementary Information and Learning Traps (with Xiaosheng Mu), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020
  8. Machine Learning for Evaluating and Improving Theories (with Drew Fudenberg), SIGEcom Exchanges, 2020
  9. Predicting and Understanding Initial Play (with Drew Fudenberg), American Economic Review, 2019
  10. Inference of Preference Heterogeneity from Choice Data, Journal of Economic Theory, 2019

Selected Awards & Honors

2023Member of the Council of the Game Theory Society
2022NSF CAREER Grant, "Information, Algorithms, and Learning"
2022Economic Theory Fellow, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory

Selected Editorial & Professional Roles

2026–2029Associate Editor, Econometrica
2025–2028Associate Editor, Theoretical Economics
2025Track Chair, ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC)
2021–2024, 2026Area Chair / Senior Program Committee, EC

Selected Keynotes & Plenaries

2026Australian Economic Theory Workshop (keynote)
2026AI and Economics Research (keynote)
2026Economics and AI+ML, Econometric Society (keynote)
2023North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (semi-plenary)
2023Stony Brook International Conference on Game Theory (semi-plenary)
2023BSE Summer Forum: Computational and Experimental Economics (keynote)
2021WINE 2021 (plenary)
2019"Highlights Beyond EC" session at EC 2019 (plenary)