George A. Weiss and Lydia Bravo Weiss University Professor

Economics

Electrical and Systems Engineering

Computer and Information Science

Co-director, Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences

Office: Amy Gutmann Hall, 507

Research Areas

  • Mechanism Design
  • Auction Theory
  • Pricing
  • Game Theory

Awards

2023: The INFORMS Fredrick W. Lanchester Prize

2020: The ACM SIGecom Test of Time award

2017: Kravis Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching in Economics, University of Pennsylvania

2015: WINE (Web and Internet Economics) Best Paper Award (joint with Sepher Assadi, Sanjeev
Khanna and Yang Li)

2014: Elected Fellow of the Game Theory Society

2012: Top Core Professor, Kellogg Executive Masters Program, class # 86

2012: Fellow, ESEI Center for Market Design, University of Zurich

2011: Economic Theory Fellow, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory

Projects/Papers

(Near-)Substitute Preferences and Equilibria with Indivisibilities
Sequential Information Acquisition and Optimal Search
Optimal Bailouts in Diversified Financial Networks

Students