Mihai Manea
Assistant Professor MIT

Mihai Manea is an assistant professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His current research focuses on surplus division in networks, allocation and matching problems, and mechanism design with independent discrete types. His earlier work explored issues in decision theory and game theory. Mihai completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 2009, where he won the Presidential Scholarship of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2005–2009 and the Justice, Welfare and Economics Research Fellowship in 2007.

Mihai earned an A.B. from Princeton University in 2005 winning numerous prizes and scholarships, including the The Halbert White ’72 Prize in Economics, 2005 for the "most outstanding senior economics major" and the Wolf Balleisen Memorial Prize, 2005 for ”the best thesis on an economics subject".

Before Princeton, Mihai won 3 Gold Medals in the International Mathematical Olympiad, in 1999, 2000 and 2001 and 3 Gold Medals in the Balkan Mathematical Olympiad, in 1999, 2000 and 2001.