About
I explore how incentives shape algorithms, learning, and AI systems, through an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of theoretical computer science, microeconomics, and law. I'm interested in the design and analysis of algorithms with economic and societal applications. My main research area is algorithmic game theory.I am passionate about algorithmic contract design and gratefully acknowledge my 2022 ERC grant (ALGOCONTRACT), which supports the development of this emerging research area.
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I'm a recipient of the Google Research Scholar Award and the Krill Prize.
I recently joined The Center for Applied Research on Risks to Democracy.
I'm also a visiting faculty member at the Technion, where I was fortunate to start my career as a professor before moving to Tel Aviv University. My research group currently spans both institutes.
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Inbal Talgam-Cohen is a computer science professor whose interdisciplinary work spans computer science, economics and law. She received her PhD in computer science from Stanford University, followed by a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship, and in addition holds a law LLB. Inbal’s recognitions include the Best Doctoral Dissertation Award from ACM SIGecom, a Google Scholar Award, the Krill Prize, an ERC grant, and the Best Student Paper Award at the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC). She is a Senior Fellow of the Microsoft AI Economy Institute (2025 Fall Cohort), and is part of the AI Security Institute's 2026 Alignment Project. Inbal currently serves on the editorial board of SIAM Journal on Computing (SICOMP), and leads the technology program at TAU’s Center for Risks to Democracy. Previously, she interned at Microsoft Research and Yahoo! Labs, and clerked for Hon. Justice Esther Hayut of the Israeli Supreme Court.
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Funding
- ERC grant "Algorithmic Contract Design - ALGOCONTRACT" (2023-2028)
- ISF grant "Contract Design, Machine Learning and Statistical Inference" (2024-2028)
- AISI (AI Security Institute) Alignment Project Grant (2026)
- Microsoft AIEI (AI Economy Institute) Senior Fellow (Fall 2025 Cohort)
- NSF-BSF grant "Algorithmic Persuasion", joint with Yakov Babichenko and Haifeng Xu
- ISF grant "Complexity in Markets – Beyond Worst-Case Analysis"
News
- Apr 2026: Videos from the Winter Meeting on CS, AI & Law are up!
- Apr 2026: With Nicole Immorlica, Eden Saig and Alex Smolin, we're organizing a workshop at EC'26 on Incentive-Based AI Alignment. CFP coming soon!
- Apr 2026: Honored to speak about "Algorithmic Contract Design: Recent Progress" in a workshop celebrating Aumann's 20th Nobel prize anniversary.
- Dec 2025: Our lab in Ynet's Private Investigators! (In Hebrew.)
- May 2025: Congratulations to Konstantin Zabaranyi for receiving the Best Dissertation award for his PhD thesis "Information Design in the 21st Century: A CS Perspective"!
Selected service
Editor:- Associate Editor, SIAM Journal on Computing (SICOMP)
- Steering Committee, CS+Law Workshop Series
- Editor-in-Chief, ACM SIGecom Exchanges (2020-2022)
- Co-organizer of the 2026 SIGecom Winter Meeting
- Co-organizer of the SafeToC initiative for combatting harassment
- Breakthrough Research 2026 Chair of Evaluation Committee
- EC'24 Theory Track Chair
- WINE'21 Program Committee Co-Chair
Education
PhD in Computer Science,
Stanford University
MSc in Computer Science,
Weizmann Institute of Science
BSc in Computer Science,
Tel Aviv University
LLB in Law,
Tel Aviv University
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