Ariel D. Procaccia
| Ariel D. Procaccia | |
|---|---|
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | Israel |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions |
Carnegie Mellon University Harvard University |
| Alma mater | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Thesis | Computational Voting Theory: Of the Agents, By the Agents, For the Agents (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jeffrey S. Rosenschein |
| Notable awards | IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (2015) |
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Website www | |
Ariel D. Procaccia is an Assistant 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.
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.[1] Subsequently he was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft and Harvard University, where he was partially supported by a Rothschild Fellowship from Yad Hanadiv.[2] In 2011, he joined the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University as a faculty member.
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".[3] That same year, he was named a Sloan Research Fellow.[4]
References
- ↑ Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award recipients, retrieved on March 29, 2015.
- ↑ Rothschild Fellowship recipients, retrieved on March 29, 2015.
- ↑ IJCAI-15 awards, retrieved on May 29, 2015.
- ↑ 2015 Sloan Research Fellows, Retrieved on March 29, 2015.