Nationality Israel Fields Computer Science | Name Ariel Procaccia | |
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Institutions Carnegie Mellon UniversityHarvard University Thesis Computational Voting Theory: Of the Agents, By the Agents, For the Agents (2008) Alma mater | ||
Doctoral advisor Jeffrey S. Rosenschein Residence United States of America | ||
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. Subsequently he was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft and Harvard University, where he was partially supported by a Rothschild Fellowship from Yad Hanadiv. 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". That same year, he was named a Sloan Research Fellow.