b. 1965
Aviad Heifetz is an Israeli game theorist and mathematical economist whose work focuses on epistemic game theory, interactive belief systems, and the foundations of strategic reasoning. He is known for contributions to the formal modeling of knowledge, belief hierarchies, and unawareness in games, and has published extensively on the philosophical foundations of decision theory.
Co-developed formal frameworks for modeling unawareness in interactive epistemology
Contributed foundational work on universal type spaces and belief hierarchies
Authored influential papers on plausibility orderings and sequential rationality
Professor of Economics at the Open University of Israel
Advanced the philosophical foundations of epistemic game theory