Jacob Leshno

Assistant Professor at Columbia Business School

Assistant Professor of Economics and Robert H. Topel Faculty Scholar at Booth School of Business

Schools

  • Columbia Business School
  • Booth School of Business

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Columbia Business School

Biography

Professor Leshno teaches the MBA core class Operations Management and the PhD class Foundations of Optimization. His primary research interest is in market design and matching markets. This research uses mathematical modeling, game theory, algorithms and optimization tools to improve allocation methods. Examples include school choice algorithms and assignment of public housing.

Teaching

Fall 2017

(PhD) Foundations of Optimization (PHD)

Spring 2017

Topics in Game Theory for Operations (PHD)

Fall 2016

(PhD) Foundations of Optimization (PHD)

Fall 2015

(PhD) Foundations of Optimization (PHD)

Summer 2015

Operations Management (MBA)

Fall 2014

(PhD) Foundations of Optimization (PHD)

Summer 2014

Operations Management (MBA)

In The News

Media Mentions

Ticket Schemes and Fed Positions

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Press Releases

Congestion can allow Blockchains to Finance their Infrastructure and is Vital to Bitcoin, According to New Research from Columbia Business School

Booth School of Business

Jacob Leshno is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Professor Leshno uses game theory, applied mathematics and microeconomic theory to study allocation mechanism and the design of marketplaces. His research looks into the design of school choice procedures that guide the allocation of students to schools, the assignment of patients to nursing homes, and the design of decentralized cryptocurrencies.

Before joining Chicago Booth, Jacob Leshno was an Assistant Professor in the Decision, Risk Operations group in the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. He spent a year as a post-doc researcher in Microsoft Research New England, and previously worked at Yahoo! and IBM. Jacob holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University, completed under the supervision of Prof. Alvin Roth. He holds a M.Sc. and B.Sc. in pure math from Tel Aviv University.

Academic Areas

  • Microeconomics

Education

  • PhD Harvard University (2007 — 2012)
  • B.Sc. Tel Aviv University (2001 — 2005)

Companies

  • Assistant Professor The University of Chicago Booth School of Business (2018)
  • Assistant Professor Columbia University in the City of New York (2013 — 2018)
  • Post-Doc Researcher Microsoft (2012 — 2013)
  • PhD Candidate Harvard Business School (2007 — 2012)
  • Summer Internship Yahoo! (2009 — 2009)
  • Researcher (student position) IBM HRL (2004 — 2007)
  • Technological Researcher IDF (2001 — 2004)

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