Tim Roughgarden, a professor of computer science at Columbia Engineering, has been selected as an Economic Theory Fellow by the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET).
SAET advances knowledge in theoretical economics and facilitates communication among researchers in economics, mathematics, game theory, and other fields that are useful to economic theory. Economic Theory Fellows are selected for their scientific excellence, originality, and leadership; high ethical standards; and scholarly and creative achievement. The contributions of fellows may exist in many areas of theoretical economics, including pure and applied research, and government service. The primary qualification for fellowship is to have substantially advanced economic theory. This achievement may be evidenced by an outstanding publication record; strong editorial board service; honorary, scientific, educational and professional achievements, or through the training of graduate students.
Roughgarden works at the boundary of computer science and economics, and on the design, analysis, applications, and limitations of algorithms. He has been awarded the Association for Computing Machinery Grace Murray Hopper Award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the Kalai Prize in Computer Science and Game Theory, the Social Choice and Welfare Prize, the Mathematical Programming Society’s Tucker Prize, and the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computational Theory Gödel Prize.
He was an invited speaker at the 2006 International Congress of Mathematicians, the Shapley Lecturer at the 2008 World Congress of the Game Theory Society, and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2017. He has written or edited ten books and monographs, including Twenty Lectures on Algorithmic Game Theory (2016), Beyond the Worst-Case Analysis of Algorithms (2020), and the Algorithms Illuminated book series (2017-2020). Prior to joining Columbia, he spent 15 years on the computer science faculty at Stanford University after receiving his Ph.D. from Cornell University and completing postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley.
Roughgarden is a Data Science Institute affiliate. He serves on the Computational Social Science working group committee, and is an affiliated member of the Foundations of Data Science center.
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