Shiri Ron

Postdoctoral Fellow

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at Blavatnik School of Computer Science and AI at the Tel Aviv University, hosted by Michal Feldman and Inbal Talgam-Cohen. My main research interests are the foundations of algorithmic mechanism and contract design.

Before that, I pursued my PhD at the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science under the supervision of Shahar Dobzinski. I am an alumna of the Azrieli Fellowship program and a recipient of the Séphora Berrebi Scholarship, the Michael B. Maschler Prize, the Dimitris N. Chorafas Award and the Rothschild Prize Excellence Award. From 2022 to 2023, I was a research intern at Microsoft Research, advised by Moshe Babaioff.

News and Activities

I am currently on the postdoc job market!

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 assisting 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

Conference of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025), February 2025.

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