Contrary to popular belief, my first name is Solal and my last name is Nathan. I am currently a PhD Student in the A&O team at the LISN (previously LRI), which is also the TAU (previously TAO) team at Inria. My thesis is titled Recommending Jobs in Congested Markets: Design, Fairness, and Market-Level Effects in Public Employment and it started in January 2023. I am interested in AI for social good, fairness, job recommender systems, congestion avoidance, optimal transport, and much more! I work under the supervision of Michèle Sebag and Philippe Caillou in the Vadore project. The recommender system we built there is being evaluated with France Travail in a large-scale randomised controlled trial, of which I am one of the investigators ( AEA registry). The manuscript is with the reviewers and the defence is planned for autumn 2026; the date will be announced here.

You can contact me by email at solal@solalnathan.com. I will answer. You can also interact with me on Mastodon or Bluesky.

I am a free software advocate and will use exclusively free software wherever I can, including in my research. I am climate conscious and will try to reduce my personal impact, including in my research.

In my free time I have associative commitments at Aurore and Crans 🧑‍💻. I do bouldering 🧗and improv 🎭.

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