Nima Haghpanah is an associate professor of Economics at Penn State. Before joining Penn State in 2016, he received his PhD in Computer Science from Northwestern University in 2014 and was a postdoctoral associate at MIT from 2014 to 2016. He studies mechanism design, information design, and price discrimination. Nima’s research involves developing theoretical frameworks for understanding various economic mechanisms and their applications. He has published in several high-impact journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. His work often explores the intersection of economics and computer science, highlighting his dual expertise in these elds.