Biography

Ilan Lobel joined New York University Stern School of Business in July 2010 as an Assistant Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences. He teaches a course entitled "Decision Models." Prior to joining NYU Stern, Professor Lobel was a post-doctoral researcher at Microsoft Research's New England Laboratory.

Professor Lobel's research focuses on how social networks affect individual decision-making, pricing of online services and designing auctions and mechanisms for dynamic environments.

Professor Lobel received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Pontificia Universidade Catolica of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and his Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Research Interests

• Decision-making in social networks
• Design of dynamic mechanisms and auctions
• Pricing of online services
• Distributed optimization methods

Courses Taught

• Decision Models

Academic Background

Ph.D., Operations Research, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, 2004
Pontificia Universidade Catolica of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Selected Publications

D. Acemoglu, M. Dahleh, I. Lobel and A. Ozdaglar (2011)
Bayesian Learning in Social Networks
Forthcoming, Review of Economic Studies

I. Lobel, A. Ozdaglar and D. Feijer (2011)
Distributed Multi-Agent Optimization with State-Dependent Communication
Forthcoming, Mathematical Programming

I. Lobel and A. Ozdaglar (2011)

Forthcoming, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

S. Kakade, I. Lobel and H. Nazerzadeh (2011)