Vincent Conitzer, Kimberly J. Jenkins University Professor of New Technologies and Professor of Economics and Philosophy and Bass Fellow of Computer Science

Contact Info:

Office Location:	LSRC D207, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	(919) 660-6503
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.cs.duke.edu/~conitzer/

Education:

Ph.D.	Carnegie Mellon University	2006
M.S.	Carnegie Mellon University	2003
B.A.	Harvard University	2001

Specialties:

Microeconomic Theory
Microeconomics
Computational Economics

Research Interests: (Computational aspects of) game theory, mechanism design, social choice theory, auctions and exchanges, electronic commerce

Professor Vincent Conitzer's research focuses on issues in the intersection of computer science (especially artificial intelligence) and economics. This includes the design of new marketplaces and other negotiation protocols that allow humans and software agents to express their preferences naturally and accurately, and that generate good outcomes based on these preferences. It also includes the design of software agents that can act strategically in settings where multiple parties all pursue their own interests. This requires the use of concepts from game theory, as well as operationalizing these concepts by finding efficient algorithms for computing the corresponding solutions. Finally, his research includes the study of all settings in computer science in which multiple parties will act in their own self-interest, as well as the design of incentive mechanisms to reach good outcomes in spite of such behavior.

Keywords:

intersection of computer science and economics • game theory • mechanism design • electronic commerce • artificial intelligence • multiagent systems • auctions & exchanges • public goods & externalities • expressive markets/negotiation • preference elicitation • coalition formation • voting • resource-bounded reasoning • learning in games • computational & communication complexity • game playing • optimization • search • machine learning

Curriculum Vitae  Bio

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. V Conitzer, On Stackelberg mixed strategies, Synthese, vol. 193 no. 3 (March, 2016), pp. 689-703, ISSN 0039-7857 [doi]
2. SK Jakobsen, TB Sørensen and V Conitzer, Timeability of extensive-form games, ITCS 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (January, 2016), pp. 191-199 [doi]  [abs]
3. V Conitzer, Can rational choice guide us to correct de se beliefs?, Synthese, vol. 192 no. 12 (December, 2015), pp. 4107-4119, ISSN 0039-7857 [doi]
4. V Conitzer, A Dutch book against sleeping beauties who are evidential decision theorists, Synthese, vol. 192 no. 9 (October, 2015), pp. 2887-2899, ISSN 0039-7857 [doi]  [abs]
5. V Conitzer, A devastating example for the Halfer Rule, Philosophical Studies, vol. 172 no. 8 (August, 2015), pp. 1985-1992, ISSN 0031-8116 [doi]