Liad Wagman

Liad Wagman holds the prestigious John and Mae Calamos Dean Endowed Chair and is a professor of economics at the Stuart School of Business at Illinois Tech. He serves as an Academic Affiliate at the Office of Global Services for Law and Economics and has held numerous significant positions, including Senior Economic and Technology Advisor at the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy Planning and Competition Fellow at the Data Catalyst Institute. His academic contributions include roles as a Visiting Associate Professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and a Visiting Scholar at Duke University's Economics Department. Additionally, Wagman has been involved in research at the Duke University Computer Science Department and the Social Sciences Research Institute, and he worked at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He has received several accolades, including the Program for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences Fellowship, the Education and Research Initiative Award, the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Best Paper Award, and the Outstanding Paper Award at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.