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/

Teaching (Spring 2018):

• COMPSCI 223.01, COMP MICROECONOMICS Synopsis

  Social Sciences 136, WF 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• PHIL 590S.01, SPECIAL FIELDS SEMINAR (TOP) Synopsis

  SEE INSTRU, WF 07:30 PM-08:45 PM

• COMPSCI 590.02, ADVANCED TOPICS IN CPS Synopsis

  LSRC D106, WF 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

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. Conitzer, V, A Puzzle about Further Facts, Erkenntnis (March, 2018), pp. 1-13 [doi]  [abs]
2. Conitzer, V, Technical perspective designing algorithms and the fairness criteria they should satisfy, Communications of the ACM, vol. 61 no. 2 (February, 2018), pp. 92 [doi]
3. Conitzer, V; Freeman, R; Shah, N, Fair public decision making, EC 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (June, 2017), pp. 629-646, ISBN 9781450345279 [doi]  [abs]
4. Aziz, H; Brill, M; Conitzer, V; Elkind, E; Freeman, R; Walsh, T, Justified representation in approval-based committee voting, Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 48 no. 2 (February, 2017), pp. 461-485 [doi]  [abs]
5. Conitzer, V; Sinnott-Armstrong, W; Borg, JS; Deng, Y; Kramer, M, Moral decision making frameworks for artificial intelligence, 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2017 (January, 2017), pp. 4831-4835  [abs]