Expertise
Microeconomic Theory; Social Learning; Epistemology; Risk and Uncertainty; Social Choice
Profile
Tamuz works in both mathematics and microeconomic theory, and is an expert in probability.
Languages Spoken
English;
Hebrew;
Faculty Bio
B.Sc., Tel Aviv University, 2006; M.Sc., Weizmann Institute of Science, 2010; Ph.D., 2013. Assistant Professor, Caltech, 2015-19; Professor, 2019-.
Selected Awards
National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2020
Sloan Research Fellowship in Mathematics, 2020
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