Noam Nisan

Professor Noam Nisan is a distinguished computer scientist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he serves as a professor of Computer Science and a member of the Center for Rationality, while also working as a principal researcher at Microsoft Research. His groundbreaking research spans the intersection of Computer Science, Economic Theory, and Game Theory, with particular emphasis on electronic markets and auctions. He is credited with establishing the field of algorithmic mechanism design and has made fundamental contributions to computational complexity theory. His exceptional work has earned him several prestigious accolades, including the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his thesis "Using Hard Problems to Create Pseudorandom Generators"