"My Ph.D. is in operations research. I was interested in making things work better and using mathematics to help do that. So operations research is what I studied as an undergraduate and graduate student."

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About Alvin E. Roth

Alvin E. Roth is an American economist known for work in game theory and market design. He shared the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Lloyd Shapley for work on stable allocations and market design. He has held faculty positions at Stanford University and Harvard University.

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