f(x) marks the spot   . . . Abstract . . . Biography Ariel Procaccia, Harvard University     4:15 PM (refreshments 3:45), Stata Center, Room 32-155 CSAIL Theory Colloquium -   Host: Costis Daskalakis, CSAIL, MIT -   Contact: Be, 3-6098, imbe@mit.edu

Biography

Ariel Procaccia is a CRCS fellow at Harvard's SEAS. His research interests include Computational Social Choice, Algorithmic Game Theory, and the interplay between these fields and Artificial Intelligence. He received his Ph.D. summa cum laude from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, under the supervision of Prof. Jeffrey Rosenschein. His dissertation, entitled “Computational Voting Theory: Of the Agents, By the Agents, For the Agents”, has won the 2008 IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award and Hebrew University’s Schlomiuk Prize. His work in Harvard SEAS is also supported by a Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellowship.