Associate Professor Itai Arieli joined the faculty in 2012, He received his PhD in Mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Center for the Study of Rationality in 2010. During 2010–2012, Itai was a post-doctorate research fellow at the Nuffield College University of Oxford.

Itai's research spans aspects of game theory, including equilibrium theory, learning in games, evolutionary game theory, and Bayesian learning in social networks.