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About Shai Vardi
Shai Vardi is an Assistant Professor of Management at Purdue University. Before joining Purdue, he was a Linde Postdoctoral Fellow at the Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL) at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Tel Aviv in 2015, where he was mentored by the esteemed Professor Yishay Mansour.
Professor Vardi’s research is diverse and impactful, focusing on areas such as mechanism design, online platforms, and dynamic allocation problems. His work in these fields addresses critical challenges and contributes to advancing both theoretical and practical aspects of management and computational sciences.
- 610 Purdue Mall, West Lafayette IN 47907
- svardi@purdue.edu
My journey
Academic Employment
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Management
Assistant Professor
- 2018 – present
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
Social and Information Sciences Laboratory (SISL)
Postdoctoral scholar
Mentor: Prof. Adam Wierman
- 2016 – 2018
Weizmann Institute of Science
Israel Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Postdoctoral scholar
Mentor: Prof. Uriel Feige
- 2015 – 2016
Education
Tel Aviv University
Israel PhD, Computer Science Thesis: Designing Local Computation Algorithms and Mechanisms. Advisor: Prof. Yishay Mansour
- 2011 – 2015
Tel Aviv University
Israel MSc, Computer Science, with honors Thesis: Local Computation Algorithms. Advisor: Prof. Ronitt Rubinfeld
- 2009 – 2011
Rimon School Of Jazz and Contemporary Music
Israel Jazz Performance, Bass
- 2018 – present
Tel Aviv University
Israel BSc, Computer Science, with honors On excellence scholarship.
- 2018 – present