Nir Ailon is an associate professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at Technion Israel Institute of Technology. He completed his Ph.D. at the Department of Computer Science of Princeton University in 2006, under the supervision of Prof. Bernard Chazelle. He continued as a postdoc at the Institute for Advanced Study for one year, and then worked as a research scientist at Google Research in NY before moving to the Technion. He is interested in the intersection of theoretical computer science and learning theory.