The IIPSC Team

Neil Dorosin, Founder and Executive Director
Neil Dorosin was the Director of High School Admissions Operations at the New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE) from 2004 - 2007. He led a team in overhauling the choice system and then managed NYC DOE’s high school choice process for four years. He began his career in public education as a Teach For America corps member in the South Bronx in 1994. After five years teaching he worked as a Program Director at Chess-in-the-Schools, a not-for-profit organization with a presence in hundreds of NYC schools, and then as Lead Curriculum and Staff Developer at The Learning Project Incorporated, a charter school development organization. He received his MPA in 2003 from Columbia University and came to the NYC DOE during the reorganization process initiated by Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein.

Alvin Roth PhD, Chairman of the Board of Directors
Al Roth is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the department of Economics at Harvard University, and in the Harvard Business School. His research, teaching, and consulting interests are in game theory, experimental economics, and market design. The best known of the markets he has designed (or, in this case, redesigned) is the National Resident Matching Program, through which approximately twenty thousand doctors a year find their first employment as residents at American hospitals. He has recently been involved in the reorganization of the market for Gastroenterology fellows, which started using a clearinghouse in 2006 for positions beginning in 2007. He helped design the high school matching system used in New York City to match approximately ninety thousand students to high schools each year, starting with the students who entered high school in September 2004. He also helped redesign the matching system used in Boston Public Schools, recently adopted for students of all ages starting school in September 2006. He is one of the founders and designers of the New England Program for Kidney Exchange, for incompatible patient-donor pairs. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of a number of scientific awards. He received his Ph.D. at Stanford University, and came to Harvard from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was the Andrew Mellon Professor of Economics.

Dr. Atila Abdulkadiroglu PhD, Board Director
Atila Abdulkadiroglu is an Associate Professor of Economics at Duke University. His research, teaching and consulting interests are in market and mechanism design and game theory. His pioneering work on school choice has led to the redesign of the matching system used in Boston Public Schools. He also helped the New York City Department of Education design the high school matching system. He received his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Rochester. He taught at Northwestern University and Columbia university before coming to Duke. He is a recipient of a number of scientific awards, including a Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and a National Science Foundation CAREER award.

Dr. Parag Pathak PhD, Board Director
Parag Pathak is an Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure) at MIT, where he has taught since 2008. Educated at Harvard, Pathak completed his PhD and was elected a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, one of the most prestigious research posts in academia. His research interests are in market design and in the economics of education. He has been involved in designing the high school matching system used in New York City and in Boston Public Schools. His research has been published in the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and other professional peer-reviewed journals. Pathak's research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, including a Faculty Early Career Development award in 2011.