# Ariel D. Procaccia > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ariel_D._Procaccia > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ariel_D._Procaccia.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_D._Procaccia > Source revision: 1337881442 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Computer scientist Ariel D. Procaccia אריאל פרוקצ'ה Alma mater Hebrew University of Jerusalem Awards IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (2015) Guggenheim Fellowship (2018) Social Choice and Welfare Prize (2020) Kalai Prize (2024) Scientific career Fields Computer science Institutions Carnegie Mellon University Harvard University Thesis Computational Voting Theory: Of the Agents, By the Agents, For the Agents (2008) Doctoral advisor Jeffrey S. Rosenschein Website procaccia.info **Ariel D. Procaccia** ([Hebrew](/source/Hebrew_language): אריאל פרוקצ'ה) is an Israeli-American [computer scientist](/source/Computer_scientist). He is Alfred and Rebecca Lin Professor of Computer Science at [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University). He was previously an associate professor of computer science at [Carnegie Mellon University](/source/Carnegie_Mellon_University). He is known for his research in [artificial intelligence](/source/Artificial_intelligence) (AI) and [theoretical computer science](/source/Theoretical_computer_science), especially for his work on computational aspects of [game theory](/source/Game_theory), [social choice](/source/Social_choice_theory), and [fair division](/source/Fair_division).[1] He is the founder of Spliddit, a fair division website. ## Biography Procaccia received his [Ph.D.](/source/Ph.D.), *[summa cum laude](/source/Summa_cum_laude)*, in computer science from the [Hebrew University of Jerusalem](/source/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.[2] Subsequently, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft and [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University), where he was partially supported by a [Rothschild Fellowship](/source/Rothschild_Fellowship) from [Yad Hanadiv](/source/Yad_Hanadiv).[3] In 2011, he joined the Computer Science Department at [Carnegie Mellon University](/source/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.[4] ## Research and awards In 2015, Procaccia won the [IJCAI Computers and Thought Award](/source/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".[5] He is a recipient of a 2015 [Sloan Research Fellowship](/source/Sloan_Fellowship),[6] a 2018 [Guggenheim Fellowship](/source/Guggenheim_Fellowship),[7] the 2020 Social Choice and Welfare Prize,[8] the 2024 [Kalai Prize](/source/Kalai_Prize),[9] and the 2024 ACM SIGecom Mid-Career Award.[10] He was elected an [AAAI Fellow](/source/AAAI_Fellow) in 2024 [11] and an [ACM Fellow](/source/ACM_Fellow) in 2026.[12] ## Misc Procaccia is an emeritus blogger on the popular algorithmic game theory blog "Turing's Invisible Hand."[13] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Temming, Maria (2025-02-14). ["This computer scientist uses math to help people be treated fairly"](https://www.snexplores.org/article/computers-math-solve-problems-fairly). *Science News Explores*. Retrieved 2025-08-02. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award recipients](http://www.aamas-conference.org/award-victorlesser.html), retrieved on March 29, 2015. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Rothschild Fellowship recipients](http://www.yadhanadiv.org.il/node/615/view/recipients) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20150523044722/http://www.yadhanadiv.org.il/node/615/view/recipients) 2015-05-23 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), retrieved on March 29, 2015. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Computer scientist and applied physicist join SEAS"](https://seas.harvard.edu/news/2020/01/computer-scientist-and-applied-physicist-join-seas). *seas.harvard.edu*. 2020-01-30. Retrieved 2025-08-02. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [IJCAI awards](https://www.ijcai.org/awards), retrieved on April 7, 2018. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [Sloan Research Fellows](https://sloan.org/past-fellows) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20180314000756/https://sloan.org/past-fellows) 2018-03-14 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), retrieved on April 7, 2018. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [2018 Guggenheim Fellows](https://www.gf.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Alpha-Directory-with-Title-and-Affiliation-US-2018.pdf), retrieved on April 7, 2018. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** [Social Choice and Welfare Prize](http://www.unicaen.fr/recherche/mrsh/scw/prize), retrieved on July 30, 2020. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** [\[1\]](https://gametheorysociety.org/kalai-prize-2024/), retrieved on October 28, 2024. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** ["ACM SIGecom: Mid-Career Award"](https://www.sigecom.org/award-midcareer.html). *www.sigecom.org*. Retrieved 2025-08-02. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** ["Elected AAAI Fellows"](https://aaai.org/about-aaai/aaai-awards/the-aaai-fellows-program/elected-aaai-fellows/#2024). *Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence*. Retrieved 2025-07-12. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** ["Association for Computing Machinery Selects 71 Professionals for Outstanding Achievements"](https://www.acm.org/media-center/2026/january/fellows-2025/). Association for Computing Machinery. 2026. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-13)** [Turing's Invisible Hand](https://agtb.wordpress.com/), retrieved on February 5, 2019. ## External links - [Personal website](https://procaccia.info) Authority control databases: Academics ORCID Mathematics Genealogy Project Google Scholar DBLP --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Ariel D. Procaccia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_D._Procaccia) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_D._Procaccia?action=history)). 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