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I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Cowles Foundation at Yale University. In July 2019 I will join the Economics Department at Columbia University as an assistant professor.

My research interests are in information acquisition and mechanism design.
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Working Papers
Optimal Privacy-Constrained Mechanisms, with Ran Eilat and Kfir Eliaz (February 2019)

Complementary Information and Learning Traps, with Annie Liang (January 2019)

Informational Robustness in Intertemporal Pricing, with Jonathan Libgober (January 2019)

Paying (for) Attention: The Impact of Information Processing Costs on Bayesian Inference, with Scott D. Kominers and Alex Peysakovich (January 2019)

Amendment Voting with Incomplete Preferences (January 2019)

Optimal and Myopic Information Acquisition, with Annie Liang and Vasilis Syrgkanis (May 2018)

Keeping Your Story Straight: Truthtelling and Liespotting, with Johannes Hörner and Nicolas Vieille (April 2017)

Myopically Searching for the Best (in progress)

Ranking of Experiments and Mutual Information (in progress)
Publications
“Differentially Private and Incentive Compatible Recommendation System for the Adoption of Network Goods.” (with Kevin He) EC ’14, Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2014.

“Log-concavity of a Mixture of Beta Distributions.” Statistics and Probability Letters, 99: 125-130, 2015.

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Cowles Foundation at Yale University. In July 2019 I will join the Economics Department at Columbia University as an assistant professor. My research interests are in information acquisition and mechanism design.