Ehud Kalai

Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois ~James J. O'Connor Distinguished Professor of Decision and Games Sciences; Director, Center for Strategic Decision Making. Advanced game theory and its applications within social science fields such as economics and social choice as well as in computer science. The Kalai-Smorodinsky solution, which opened up the field of bargaining and initiated significant research in this area, is among his contributions to cooperative game theory. In non-cooperative game theory, the Kalai-Lehrer rational-learning model produced literature that studies strategic learning by payoff-maximizing players. Recent work on large games is at the core of a growing literature on the robustness of game theoretic analysis in economics, computer science, and other large, interactive systems. Initiated and advanced research on flow games; strategic complexity; arbitration, strategic delegation, and commitments; competitive service speed; and Arrow's Impossibility Theorem. Recent research on cooperative strategic interaction further expands the scope of game theory and its relevance to real-world economic activity.~~