Shiri Ron

PhD Student

I am a fourth year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science under the supervision of Shahar Dobzinski. My main research interest is the foundations of algorithmic mechanism design. I am honored to be an Azrieli Fellow and a recipient of the Séphora Berrebi Scholarship, the Michael B. Maschler Prize and the Rothschild Prize Excellence Award.

From 2022 to 2023, I was a research intern at Microsoft Research, advised by Moshe Babaioff. I completed my MSc in Computer Science at Weizmann in 2020 and my BSc in Computer Science and Psychology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2018.

News and Activities

Upcoming talks:

On December 4th, I'll be giving a talk at the Technion Theory Lunch.

On December 18th, I'll be giving a talk at the Bar-Ilan University Theory Seminar.

During the fall semester of 2023,I participated in the Mathematics and Computer Science of Market and Mechanism Design Program at SLMath as a Lauter Fellow.
I was assiting with the organization of the Israeli Algorithmic Game Theory Seminar.

I was a Research Assistant for the 5G spectrum auction at the Ministry of Communications, under the supervision of Liad Blumrosen.

Publications

On the Power of Randomization for Obviously Strategy-Proof Mechanisms

Shiri Ron, Dan Schoepflin

Under submission

Communication Separations for Truthful Auctions: Breaking the Two-Player Barrier

Shiri Ron, Clayton Thomas, S. Matthew Weinberg, Qianfan Zhang

IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), October 2024.

Impossibilities for Obviously Strategy-Proof Mechanisms

Shiri Ron

ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), January 2024.

On the Computational Complexity of Mechanism Design in Single-Crossing Settings

Moshe Babaioff, Shahar Dobzinski, Shiri Ron

ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC), July 2023.

On the Hardness of Dominant Strategy Mechanism Design

Shahar Dobzinski, Shiri Ron, Jan Vondrak

ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC), June 2022

Spotlight Beyond WINE, December 2022

The Communication Complexity of Payment Computation

Shahar Dobzinski, Shiri Ron

ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC), June 2021