Curriculum Vitae
Employment
| 2024 – present |
Northwestern University Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure) Associate Professor of Computer Science (by courtesy) |
| 2021 – 2024 |
Northwestern University Assistant Professor of Economics (2021–2024) Assistant Professor of Computer Science (2021–2022) |
| 2017 – 2020 |
University of Pennsylvania Assistant Professor of Economics |
| 2016 – 2017 |
Microsoft Research New England Postdoctoral Researcher |
Education
| 2016 | Harvard University — Ph.D. in Economics |
| 2011 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology — S.B. in Mathematics and S.B. in Economics |
Published Papers
- Algorithm Design: A Fairness-Accuracy Frontier (with Jay Lu, Xiaosheng Mu, and Kyohei Okumura), Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming. [PDF]
- Using Machine Learning to Generate, Clarify, and Improve Economic Models, Journal of Economic Literature, accepted. [PDF]
- How Flexible is That Functional Form? Quantifying the Restrictiveness of Theories (with Drew Fudenberg and Wayne Gao), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2026. [PDF]
- Data and Incentives (with Erik Madsen), Theoretical Economics, 2024. [PDF]
- Algorithmic Fairness and Social Welfare (with Jay Lu), AEA Papers & Proceedings, 2024. [PDF]
- Measuring the Completeness of Economic Models (with Drew Fudenberg, Jon Kleinberg, and Sendhil Mullainathan), Journal of Political Economy, 2022. [PDF]
- Dynamically Aggregating Diverse Information (with Xiaosheng Mu and Vasilis Syrgkanis), Econometrica, 2022. [PDF]
- Machine Learning for Evaluating and Improving Theories (with Drew Fudenberg), ACM SIGecom Exchanges, 2020. [PDF]
- Complementary Information and Learning Traps (with Xiaosheng Mu), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020. [PDF]
- Predicting and Understanding Initial Play (with Drew Fudenberg), American Economic Review, 2019. [PDF]
- Inference of Preference Heterogeneity from Choice Data, Journal of Economic Theory, 2019. [PDF]
- Optimal and Myopic Information Acquisition (with Xiaosheng Mu and Vasilis Syrgkanis), Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2018. [PDF]
Working Papers
- Testing the Fairness-Accuracy Improvability of Algorithms (with Eric Auerbach, Max Tabord-Meehan, and Kyohei Okumura), revision invited at the Journal of Political Economy. [PDF]
- Human or Machine? Assessing AI's Ability to Generate Game Theory Problems (with Ben Golub and Marciano Siniscalchi). [PDF]
- Creative Ownership in the Age of AI (with Jay Lu). [PDF]
- How Well Do LLMs Predict Human Behavior? A Measure of Their Pretrained Knowledge (with Wayne Gao and Sukjin Han). [PDF]
- Friend or Foe? Delegating to an AI whose Alignment is Unknown (with Drew Fudenberg). [PDF]
- Artificial Intelligence Clones. [PDF]
- The Transfer Performance of Economic Models (with Isaiah Andrews, Drew Fudenberg, Lihua Lei, and Chaofeng Wu). [PDF]
- The Value of Context: Human versus Black Box Evaluators (with Andrei Iakovlev). [PDF]
- Games of Incomplete Information Played by Statisticians. [PDF]
Fellowships, Grants, and Awards
| 2023 | Elected Member of the Council of the Game Theory Society |
| 2022 | Economic Theory Fellow, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory |
| 2022 – 2027 | NSF CAREER Grant SES-2145352, "Information, Algorithms, and Learning" |
| 2019 – 2022 | NSF Grant SES-1851629 (with Aislinn Bohren), "Learning from Diverse Sources and Models" |
| 2018 – 2019 | Kravis Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching in Economics, University of Pennsylvania |
Editorial & Selected Service
| 2026 – 2029 | Associate Editor, Econometrica |
| 2025 – 2028 | Associate Editor, Theoretical Economics |
| EC '25 | Track Chair, ACM Conference on Economics and Computation |
| EC '21 – '24, '26 | Area Chair / Senior Program Committee, ACM Conference on Economics and Computation |
| EC '20 – '22 | Workshop Chair, ACM Conference on Economics and Computation |
| 2026 | Program Committee, North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (NASM) |
| 2024, 2021, 2019 | Excellence in Refereeing Award (AER: Insights 2024; American Economic Review 2021, 2019) |
Selected Invited Talks
- Economics and AI+ML conference of the Econometric Society (keynote), 2026
- Australian Economic Theory Workshop (keynote), 2026
- AI and Economics Research (keynote), 2026
- North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (semi-plenary), 2023
- Stony Brook International Conference on Game Theory (plenary), 2023
- Workshop on Computational and Experimental Economics, BSE Summer Forum (keynote), 2023
- WINE (plenary), 2021
- "Highlights Beyond EC" session at EC (plenary), 2019