Postdoc Fei Fang was awarded the best USC Viterbi dissertation award for 2017 – the William F. Ballhaus, Jr. Prize for Excellence in Graduate Engineering Research.

Her work on how best to deploy limited security resources is aiding the U.S. Coast Guard and even protecting endangered tigers in Malaysia.

For more information on the award and on Fang's research, please see:

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CRCS Postdoc Yang Liu Publishes in the 18th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC-17)

Yang Liu and Yiling Chen. Machine Learning Aided Peer Prediction. ACM EC 2017, Cambridge, United States.

CRCS Postdoc Nisarg Shah has two papers published in the 18th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC-17):

Fair Public Decision Making, with Vincent Conitzer and Rupert Freeman

Peer Prediction with Heterogeneous Users, with Arpit Agarwal, Debmalya Mandal, and David C. Parkes

CRCS Postdoc Nisarg Shah was awarded the 2016 IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award for his dissertation entitled "Optimal Social Decision Making."

Abstract: How can computers help ordinary people make collective decisions about real-life dilemmas, like which restaurant to go to with friends, or even how to divide an inheritance? In this talk, I will present an optimization-driven approach that draws on ideas from AI, theoretical computer science, and economic theory, and illustrate it through my research in computational social