The 2026 SIGecom job market candidate profiles are now available online! Share the following article with anyone who may be interested in hiring at the intersection of computer science, operations research, and economics: www.sigecom.org/exchanges/vo...

It is that time of year again to gather all the profiles of SIGecom job market candidates! Share this with any job market candidate at the intersection of Econ, CS, and OR that you may know. Candidates should complete the submission form (docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...) by October 7th, 2025.

Huge congratulations to Tracy Kimbrel, who received the 2025 ACM SIGACT Service Award 🏆 for his time, dedication, and advocacy as Program Director for the Algorithmic Foundations (AF) program at the NSF! sigact.org/prizes/servi... #TCSSky

Check out the terrific set of EC 2025 accepted papers! ec25.sigecom.org/program/acce...

The big AI conferences seem to be really struggling to maintain their quality at scale and will likely need a much better incentive structure. The number of submissions is massive and the reviewing quality seems to be worse every year. PC members who do a very poor job face no real repercussions.

I wrote an intro to the literature on simple mechanisms. Out now in the JEP. It’s a short (14-page) plain-language summary, designed to get students to the research frontier. 📈📉 pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

This year’s SIGecom job market candidate profiles are now available. Please share the following link with anyone you think may be interested in hiring from our community in either postdoctoral or faculty positions: www.cs.drexel.edu/~vg399/SIGec...