Ross Rheingans-Yoo

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I am an angel investor, a freelance biotech consultant with a focus on clinical-stage corporate and financial strategy for startups, and an independent research economist with a focus on market design, matching, mechanisms, and networks. I am a corresponding affiliate at Scott Kominers​’s Lab for Economic Design, at Harvard. I currently live in San Francisco.

Previously I worked on philanthropic investments in global health and pandemic preparedness at the FTX Foundation.

From 2016 to 2022, I was a trader and educator at Jane Street​, living and working in New York (2016–2018) and Hong Kong (2018–2021).

In 2016, I graduated from Harvard​ with an A. B. cum laude​ with high honors in field in Computer Science​ and Mathematics​ and an S. M.​ in Computer Science​. My undergraduate thesis, “Community-Attribute Models for Bibliographic Reference Information via Dynamic Graph Evolution​” presented a technique for dynamic structural analysis of a citation graph over time under a community-attribute-label network model; I was advised by Margo Seltzer​ and worked closely with Daniel Margo​.

At Harvard, I worked as a Research Fellow affiliated with Margo Seltzer’s Systems Research at Harvard​ lab and as an Economics Design Fellow working with Scott Kominers​ and Ravi Jagadeesan​ at the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications​. I served as a Teaching Fellow for CS161: Operating Systems​ and CS50: Introduction to Programming I​ and as the rookie captain and president of the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team​.

I enjoy research​ in {market design, network structure theory, quantitative epistemology​, algebraic tameness}, teaching, educational game design, puzzles, poetry, cellular automaton art​, fencing, and ballroom dance. I blog at Icosian Reflections​ about a variety of topics, and have taken the Giving What We Can Pledge​. My Erdős number is 4.

I’m @_rossry​ on Twitter.