David Parkes
Professor of Computer Science at Harvard Business School
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Harvard Business School
Parkes leads research at the interface between economics and computer science, with a focus on multi-agent systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning. This is a vibrant field, encompassing questions about market design, dynamic pricing, preference elicitation, digital currency, reputation, and the increasing role that artificial intelligences will play in mediating transactions of all kinds.
Parkes founded the EconCS research group within the Paulson School, and is co-director of the Harvard University Data Science Initiative, and co-chair of the Harvard Business Analytics certificate program and the FAS Data Science Masters. Earlier, Parkes was Area Dean for Computer Science, 2013-2017. He served on the inaugural panel of the "Stanford 100 Year Study on Artificial Intelligence," co-organized the 2016 OSTP Workshop on "AI for Social Good," and served as chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce (2011-16). Since 2018, Parkes has served on the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) of the Computing Research Association.
Parkes is Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and recipient of the 2017 ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award, the NSF Career Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the Thouron Scholarship, and the Roslyn Abramson Award for Teaching. Parkes has degrees from the University of Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania, serves on several international scientific advisory boards, and is a technical advisor to a number of start-ups.
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2016 CODE Fireside Panel - "The Tyranny of Algorithms?"
CITP Lecture Series: David Parkes - Robust Methods to Elicit Informative Feedback
David Parkes, Harvard Data Science Initiative
Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Meet Your Professor: David Parkes
M4LA 2021 - David Parkes - Differentiable economics
AI for Social Good (2016): Welcome Remarks
B3D | David C Parkes, Harvard University | 6 March 2017
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