Ariel D. Procaccia

Ariel D. Procaccia is the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. 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.
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 spring 2020 he was on sabbatical at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a faculty member until 2019.
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". He is a recipient of a 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship, a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2020 Social Choice and Welfare Prize.
Procaccia is emeritus blogger on the popular blog "Turing's Invisible Hand." He is known as somewhat of a "comedian" figure within the algorithmic game theory community; for instance, his recent tweet about paper acceptances at the EC Conference received quite a reaction.