{{short description|Computer scientist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Ariel D. Procaccia | native_name = אריאל פרוקצ'ה | native_name_lang = he | image = | image_size = | caption = Procaccia in 2013 | field = [[Computer science]] | work_institution = {{ubl|[[Carnegie Mellon University]] | [[Harvard University]]}} | alma_mater = [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] | doctoral_advisor = Jeffrey S. Rosenschein | doctoral_students = | thesis_title = Computational Voting Theory: Of the Agents, By the Agents, For the Agents | thesis_url = http://procaccia.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/thesis.pdf | thesis_year = 2008 | awards = {{ubl|[[IJCAI Computers and Thought Award]] (2015)|[[Guggenheim Fellowship]] (2018)|Social Choice and Welfare Prize (2020)| [[Kalai Prize]] (2024)}} | website = {{url|http://procaccia.info/}} }}
'''Ariel D. Procaccia''' ({{Langx|he|אריאל פרוקצ'ה}}) is an Israeli-American [[computer scientist]]. He is Alfred and Rebecca Lin 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 theory|social choice]], and [[fair division]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Temming |first=Maria |date=2025-02-14 |title=This computer scientist uses math to help people be treated fairly |url=https://www.snexplores.org/article/computers-math-solve-problems-fairly |access-date=2025-08-02 |website=Science News Explores |language=en-US}}</ref> He is the founder of Spliddit, a fair division website.
== Biography == 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.<ref>[http://www.aamas-conference.org/award-victorlesser.html Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award recipients], retrieved on March 29, 2015.</ref> Subsequently, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft and [[Harvard University]], where he was partially supported by a [[Rothschild Fellowship]] from [[Yad Hanadiv]].<ref>[http://www.yadhanadiv.org.il/node/615/view/recipients Rothschild Fellowship recipients] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150523044722/http://www.yadhanadiv.org.il/node/615/view/recipients |date=2015-05-23 }}, retrieved on March 29, 2015.</ref> 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 2020, he moved to Harvard as a Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-01-30 |title=Computer scientist and applied physicist join SEAS |url=https://seas.harvard.edu/news/2020/01/computer-scientist-and-applied-physicist-join-seas |access-date=2025-08-02 |website=seas.harvard.edu}}</ref>
== Research and awards == 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".<ref>[https://www.ijcai.org/awards IJCAI awards], retrieved on April 7, 2018.</ref> He is a recipient of a 2015 [[Sloan Fellowship|Sloan Research Fellowship]],<ref>[https://sloan.org/past-fellows Sloan Research Fellows] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314000756/https://sloan.org/past-fellows |date=2018-03-14 }}, retrieved on April 7, 2018.</ref> a 2018 [[Guggenheim Fellowship]],<ref>[https://www.gf.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Alpha-Directory-with-Title-and-Affiliation-US-2018.pdf 2018 Guggenheim Fellows], retrieved on April 7, 2018.</ref> the 2020 Social Choice and Welfare Prize,<ref>[http://www.unicaen.fr/recherche/mrsh/scw/prize Social Choice and Welfare Prize], retrieved on July 30, 2020.</ref> the 2024 [[Kalai Prize]],<ref>[https://gametheorysociety.org/kalai-prize-2024/], retrieved on October 28, 2024.</ref> and the 2024 ACM SIGecom Mid-Career Award.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ACM SIGecom: Mid-Career Award |url=https://www.sigecom.org/award-midcareer.html |access-date=2025-08-02 |website=www.sigecom.org}}</ref> He was elected an [[AAAI Fellow]] in 2024 <ref>{{Cite web |title=Elected AAAI Fellows |url=https://aaai.org/about-aaai/aaai-awards/the-aaai-fellows-program/elected-aaai-fellows/#2024 |access-date=2025-07-12 |website=Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence |language=en-US}}</ref> and an [[ACM Fellow]] in 2026.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.acm.org/media-center/2026/january/fellows-2025/|title= Association for Computing Machinery Selects 71 Professionals for Outstanding Achievements|year=2026|publisher= Association for Computing Machinery}}</ref>
== Misc == Procaccia is an emeritus blogger on the popular algorithmic game theory blog "Turing's Invisible Hand."<ref>[https://agtb.wordpress.com/ Turing's Invisible Hand], retrieved on February 5, 2019.</ref>
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==External links== *[https://procaccia.info Personal website]
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