{"id":2382,"date":"2024-02-28T23:23:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T23:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/main\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2024-02-28T23:23:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T23:23:37","slug":"david-parkes-2017-autonomous-agents-research-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/main\/2024\/02\/28\/david-parkes-2017-autonomous-agents-research-award\/","title":{"rendered":"David Parkes (2017 Autonomous Agents Research Award)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>The selection committee for the ACM\/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Prof. David Parkes of Harvard University is the recipient of the 2017 award. Prof. Parkes\u2019 research has explored a variety of topics in multiagent systems and economics. His early work on combinatorial auctions made fundamental contributions to the theory of the field; other pioneering early work includes an influential synthesis of MDPs and mechanism design, a formalism for incentive-aligned, distributed mechanism design, and the development of market-based methods for resource allocation in sensor networks. Recent research of Prof. Parkes has applied machine learning to produce new results and techniques for human computation, mechanism design, and social choice. He has also provided sustained service to the Multiagent Systems and EconCS communities in key leadership roles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/parkes.jpg\" alt=\"Professor David Parkes of Harvard University\" class=\"wp-image-1098\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The selection committee for the ACM\/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Prof. David Parkes of Harvard University is the recipient of the 2017 award. Prof. Parkes\u2019 research has explored a variety of topics in multiagent systems and economics. His early work on combinatorial auctions made fundamental contributions to the theory of the field; other pioneering early work includes an influential synthesis of MDPs and mechanism design, a formalism for incentive-aligned, distributed mechanism design, and the development of market-based methods for resource allocation in sensor networks. Recent research of Prof. Parkes has applied machine learning to produce new results and techniques for human computation, mechanism design, and social choice. He has also provided sustained service to the Multiagent Systems and EconCS communities in key leadership roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>David Parkes (2017 Autonomous Agents Research Award) - ACM SIGAI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/main\/2024\/02\/28\/david-parkes-2017-autonomous-agents-research-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"David Parkes (2017 Autonomous Agents Research Award) - ACM SIGAI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The selection committee for the ACM\/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Prof. David Parkes of Harvard University is the recipient of the 2017 award. 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