Nicole Immorlica

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Nicole Immorlica (born November 26, 1978)[1] is a theoretical computer scientist at Microsoft Research, known for her work on algorithmic game theory and locality-sensitive hashing.

Education and career[edit]

Immorlica completed her Ph.D. in 2005 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the joint supervision of David Karger and Erik Demaine. Her dissertation was Computing with Strategic Agents.[2]

After postdoctoral research at Microsoft Research and at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam, Immorlica took a faculty position at Northwestern University in 2008, and moved to Microsoft Research in 2012.[3]

Service[edit]

In 2019, Immorlica was elected chair of SIGecom, the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Economics and Computation.[4]

Recognition[edit]

Immorlica was named as an ACM Fellow, in the 2023 class of fellows, for "contributions to economics and computation, including market design, auctions and social networks".[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ About Nicole Immorlica, retrieved 2020-05-20
  2. ^ Nicole Immorlica at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Nicole Immorlica: Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, retrieved 2020-05-20
  4. ^ "Nicole Immorlica", People of ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, July 2, 2019
  5. ^ "Nicole Immorlica", Award recipients, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2024-01-24

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