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I'm Eric Gao, a second-year economics  PhD student at MIT. I completed my undergraduate at Stanford studying Economics (advised by Paul Milgrom), Mathematics, and Computational Social Science. My CV can be found here.

I am interested in game theory, mechanism design, and behavioral economics. In particular, I study how tools from economic theory can be used to engineer incentives to implement better outcomes. I've recently been especially interested in the alignment of artificial intellegence.

In addition to doing economics research, I enjoy teaching others about how economics can be used to analyze human behavior at a much more intricate level than basic supply and demand. Check out my Notes and Cool Things for my more expositional work! I like cats, climbing, soup, and memes.

You can reach me at ericgao [at] mit.edu. For site navigation purposes, anything underlined is a link.