Native name נעם ניסן Name Noam Nisan Nationality Israel Residence Rehovot, Israel | Fields Computer Science Children 3 Doctoral advisor Richard M. Karp | |
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Born June 20, 1961 (age 62) ( 1961-06-20 ) Institutions Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Microsoft Research Alma mater Hebrew University of Jerusalem
University of California, Berkeley Education University of California, Berkeley (1988), Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1984) Books The Elements of Compu, Algorithmic Game Theory, Using Hard Problems to Create, Communication Complexity Similar People Shimon Schocken, Tim Roughgarden, Sergey Brin, David Drummond, Larry Page | ||
Notable awards Godel Prize (2012) | ||
Noam nisan multi unit auctions with budget limits
Noam Nisan (Hebrew: נעם ניסן; born June 20, 1961) is an Israeli computer scientist, a professor of computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is known for his research in computational complexity theory and algorithmic game theory.
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- Noam nisan multi unit auctions with budget limits
- Non price equilibria in markets of discrete goods noam nisan
- Biography
- Selected publications
- Awards and honors
- References
Non price equilibria in markets of discrete goods noam nisan
Biography
Nisan did his undergraduate studies at the Hebrew University, graduating in 1984. He went to the University of California, Berkeley for graduate school, and received a Ph.D. in 1988 under the supervision of Richard Karp. After postdoctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he joined the Hebrew University faculty in 1990.
Selected publications
Nisan is the author of Using Hard Problems to Create Pseudorandom Generators (MIT Press, ACM Distinguished Dissertation Series, 1992, ISBN 978-0-262-64052-7) and the co-author with Eyal Kushilevitz of Communication Complexity (Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-521-56067-5, MR1426129). In addition, he co-edited Algorithmic Game Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-87282-9).
He has written highly cited papers on mechanism design, combinatorial auctions, the computational complexity of pseudorandom number generators, and interactive proof systems, among other topics.
Awards and honors
Nisan won an ACM Distinguished Dissertation Award for his Ph.D. thesis, on pseudorandom number generators. He won the Michael Bruno Memorial Award in 2004. In 2012 he won the Gödel Prize, shared with five other recipients, for his work with Amir Ronen in which he coined the phrase "algorithmic mechanism design" and presented many applications of this type of problem within computer science. He won the Knuth Prize in 2016 "for fundamental and lasting contributions to theoretical computer science in areas including communication complexity, pseudorandom number generators, interactive proofs, and algorithmic game theory".