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Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences

Associate Professor of Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering

Associate Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences (Courtesy)

Portrait of Jason Hartline, Faculty at the Kellogg School of Management
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Prof. Hartline’s research introduces design and analysis methodologies from computer science to understand and improve outcomes of economic systems. Optimal behavior and outcomes in complex environments are complex and, therefore, should not be expected; instead, the theory of approximation can show that simple and natural behaviors are approximately optimal in complex environments. This approach is applied to auction theory and mechanism design in his graduate textbook Mechanism Design and Approximation which is under preparation.

Prof. Hartline received his Ph.D. in 2003 from the University of Washington under the supervision of Anna Karlin. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Avrim Blum; and subsequently a researcher at Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley. He joined Northwestern University in 2008 where he is an associate professor of computer science. He was on sabbatical at Harvard University in the Economics Department during the 2014 calendar year and visiting Microsoft Research, New England for the Spring of 2015.


 
  • Ph.D., 2003, Computer Science, University of Washington
    M.S., 2000, Computer Science, University of Washington
    B.S., 1997, Electrical Engineering, Cornell University
    B.S., 1997, Computer Science, Cornell University
  • Associate Professor, Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, 2012-present
    Assistant Professor, McCormick School of Engineering, Kellogg School of Management (Courtesy), Northwestern University, 2008-2012
    Researcher, Microsoft Research, 2004-2007
    Post-doctoral Research Fellow, ALADDIN, Carnegie Mellon Univsersity, 2003
  • Researcher, Microsoft Research, 2004-2007