Nicole Immorlica (born November 26, 1978)[1] is a theoretical computer scientist at Microsoft Research, known for her work on algorithmic game theory and locality-sensitive hashing.
Immorlica completed her Ph.D. in 2005 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the joint supervision of David Karger and Erik Demaine.
[2] After postdoctoral research at Microsoft Research and at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam, Immorlica took a faculty position at Northwestern University in 2008, and moved to Microsoft Research in 2012.
[3] In 2019, Immorlica was elected chair of SIGecom, the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Economics and Computation.
[4] Immorlica was named as an ACM Fellow, in the 2023 class of fellows, for "contributions to economics and computation, including market design, auctions and social networks".