Ariel D. Procaccia

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Ariel D. Procaccia
NationalityIsraeli
Alma mater The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Computer Science
Institutions
Thesis Computational Voting Theory: Of the Agents, By the Agents, For the Agents  (2008)
Doctoral advisor Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
Website procaccia.info

Ariel D. Procaccia is the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. [1] He was previously an associate professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known for his research in artificial intelligence (AI) and theoretical computer science, especially for his work on computational aspects of game theory, social choice, and fair division. He is the founder of Spliddit, a fair division website.

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Biography

Procaccia received his Ph.D. summa cum laude in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2009. His doctoral dissertation won the IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award for the best dissertation in the area of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. [2] Subsequently, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft and Harvard University, where he was partially supported by a Rothschild Fellowship from Yad Hanadiv. [3] In 2011, he joined the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University as a faculty member. In spring 2020 he was on sabbatical at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a faculty member until 2019.

Research and awards

In 2015, Procaccia won the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, given every two years since 1971 to an outstanding AI researcher under the age of 35, for "his contributions to the fields of computational social choice and computational economics, and for efforts to make advanced fair division techniques more widely accessible". [4] He is a recipient of a 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship, [5] a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship, [6] and the 2020 Social Choice and Welfare Prize. [7]

Misc

Procaccia is an emeritus blogger on the popular algorithmic game theory blog "Turing's Invisible Hand." [8]

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References

  1. "Home". Ariel Procaccia. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
  2. Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award recipients, retrieved on March 29, 2015.
  3. Rothschild Fellowship recipients Archived 2015-05-23 at the Wayback Machine , retrieved on March 29, 2015.
  4. IJCAI awards, retrieved on April 7, 2018.
  5. Sloan Research Fellows Archived 2018-03-14 at the Wayback Machine , retrieved on April 7, 2018.
  6. 2018 Guggenheim Fellows, retrieved on April 7, 2018.
  7. Social Choice and Welfare Prize, retrieved on July 30, 2020.
  8. Turing's Invisible Hand, retrieved on February 5, 2019.