Dr Vetta is an inter-disciplinary researcher whose academic training includes a B.Sc. in Economics and an M.Sc. in Mathematics from the London School of Economics (LSE), as well as a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research concerns algorithmic and computational aspects of optimization and decision making and its application in areas such as telecommunications, industrial organization, bioinformatics, and operations research. At the heart of Dr. Vetta's current research agenda is algorithmic mechanism design, two major themes of which are the critical public policy issues of spectrum auctions and carbon pricing.