BEACH: Boston Economics and Computing Hub

Welcome to BEACH, the Boston Economics and Computing Hub. Our research tends to: (1) apply a computational lens to economic problems, such as asking for tractable or approximate solutions, (2) apply an economic lens to computing problems, such as incentivizing strategic agents to run an algorithm, or (3) investigate other questions at this intersection.

We are cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional, comprised of researchers in computer science, economics, operations research and management, business, data science, and more, from across Boston University, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, and Microsoft Research. Our calendar tries to capture the breadth of events going on in all of these different departments and universities across Boston related to computing and economics. To subscribe, click the google calendar link and press the "+" button in the lower right corner. To join our mailing list, send an email to boston-ec-hub+subscribe@googlegroups.com.

We are still building the list of Boston-based EC resources! If you know of a researcher, seminar, or event that should be added to this website (or you are listed on the website but want to update your photo or listed research areas), please send us an email at beachdirectors@gmail.com.

Gerdus Benade
Computational Social Choice, Fair Division
BU
Business
Yiling Chen
Information Elicitation & Aggregation, Behavioral Experiments, AGT, ML, Multi-Agent Systems
Harvard
CS
Costis Daskalakis
MIT
CS
Krishna Dasaratha
Social Networks, Microeconomic Theory
BU
Econ
Mahsa Derakhshan
Algorithms Under Uncertainty
Northeastern
CS
Daniel Freund
MIT
Management
Kira Goldner
Co-Director
Algorithmic Mechanism Design & Game Theory, Algorithms, Microeconomics
BU
DS
Negin Golrezaei
MIT
Management
Yannai Gonczarowski
Harvard
Econ
Nicole Immorlica
Market Design, Social Networks
MSR
CS
Scott Kominers
Harvard
Business
Shengwu Li
Harvard
Econ
Brendan Lucier
MSR
CS
David C. Parkes
Harvard
CS
Chara Podimata
Co-Director
Incentive-Aware ML, Social Computing, Online Learning, Mechanism Design
MIT
Management
Ariel Procaccia
Harvard
CS
Milind Tambe
Harvard
CS
Matheus Venturyne Xavier Ferreira
Algorithmic Game Theory, Security, AI, Cryptography
Harvard
CS
Jessie Finocchiaro
Loss Function Design, Robust Mechanism Design
Harvard
CS
Keyon Vafa
ML, Labor Economics
Harvard
CS
DS
Zhou Fan
Mechanism Design, Decentralized Finance, ML
Harvard
CS
Sara Fish
Mechanism Design, ML, LLMs
Harvard
AMath
Bailey Flanigan
Co-Director
Democracy, Social Choice
Harvard
CS
Tao Lin
Mechanism Design, Information Design, ML
Harvard
CS
Gary Qiurui Ma
Platform Economy, Market Equilibrium in Two Sided Market
Harvard
CS
Freddy Reiber
Economics and Computation
BU
DS
Thodoris Tsilivis
BU
DS
Lily Xu
ML, Game Theory, Decision-Making Under Uncertainty, AI for Social Impact
Harvard
CS