Tim Roughgarden
Associate Professor,
IAS and Columbia
Tim Roughgarden is a Professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, on leave from the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University. He is also the Founding Head of Research at a16z crypto. Prior to joining Columbia, he spent 15 years on the computer science faculty at Stanford, following a PhD at Cornell and a postdoc at UC Berkeley. He works on the boundary of computer science and economics, and on the design, analysis, applications, and limitations of algorithms.