Michael Ostrovsky
Professor & Co-Director, NBER Market Design
Stanford GSB
PhD: Harvard, 2003
Market Design
Auction Theory
Ad Markets
About
Michael Ostrovsky is the theorist behind modern ad auctions. His work with Schwarz on generalized second-price auctions (used by Google and Yahoo) won the Kalai Prize. He's advised Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn, and Pinterest, and co-founded TopSort.