Selected Awards, Honours, Grants and Positions
Australian Research Field Leader in Game Theory and Decision Sciences 2022 (According to The Australian)
In the list of 100 scholars who received an AMiner 2022 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mention in AAAI/IJCAI
Listed among the World's Top 2% Scientists (Career and Single Year Categories) in the 2022 list published by PLOS & Elsevier
Australian Research Field Leader in Game Theory and Decision Sciences 2021 (According to The Australian)
The Australian's 2021 list of top 250 researchers
Listed among the World's Top 2% Scientists in the 2021 list published by PLOS
Senior Member AAAI (Selected in the 2021 cohort)
Listed among the World's Top 2% Scientists (Career and Single Year Categories) in the 2020 list published by PLOS
Australian Research Field Leader in Game Theory and Decision Sciences 2020 (According to The Australian)
The Australian's 2020 list of top 250 researchers
IJCAI 2019 distinguished paper honourable mention award
IJCAI 2019 distinguished senior PC member award
Inaugural LUMS Vice Chancellor’s Alumni Achievement Award (2018)
UNSW Scientia Fellowship (2018 - )
Visiting Academic, Harvard University, (Feb 2018)
2018-2022 Data61, CSIRO / UNSW Collaborative Research Project on ‘AI for ethical and equitable resource allocation’ project
Visiting Academic, University of Oxford, (Sept 2017- Jan 2018)
CORE Chris Wallace Research Excellence Award 2017 [ the prize is awarded to one scientist annually for significant contributions to Australian & New Zealand research in the field of computer science ]
CSIRO Julius Career Award (2016 - 2019)
AI's 10 to Watch 2015 [ Selected by the IEEE Intelligent Systems once every two years ]
Early Career Spotlight List: IJCAI 2016 (Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
2016-2018 Data61, CSIRO / UNSW Collaborative Research Project on the Computational Complexity of Resource Allocation Problems (with Serge Gaspers and Toby Walsh).
Invited Professor, University Paris Dauphine, France (2015)
Best Young Researcher Optimisation Research Group, NICTA (2014)
Invited Fellow of the UTS Center for Market Design (2013-2016)
IJCAI 2013 Best Educational Video Award
2009–2012 European Science Foundation/DFG funded Research Fellowship.
2004–2005 Noon Educational Foundation Scholarship for the University of Oxford
Invited Talks
Invited Speaker at the 13th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling 2022
Invited Speaker at the 3rd Pakistani AI Summit, 29th March , 2022
Invited Speaker at the UTMD International Market Design Conference 2022 (March 2022)
Invited Speaker at The 34th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Feb, 2021)
Invited Speaker at the Advanced Seminar on Agents and Decision-Making, Melbourne (9-10 Dec, 2021)
Invited Speaker at the International Summer School on Game Theory and Social Choice, June 2021
Invited Speaker at the International Conference on Social Choice & Voting Theory, Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, June 2021
Invited Speaker at the First Roots Conference on Participatory Budgeting, June 2021
Invited Tutorial at DSTG Adelaide, May 2021.
Invited Speaker at the 1st IJCAI-PRICAI Workshop on Applied Mechanism Design (WAMD), Jan, 2021.
Invited Speaker at the 2020 Canberra Artificial Intelligence Summer School (CAISS2020), Dec 2020.
Invited Speaker at the 7th China Symposium on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2020.
Invited Speaker at the Workshop at Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University 2020.
Invited Speaker at the Sydney Economic Design Festival, Nov, 2019.
Invited Survey Presentation at the Dagstuhl Seminar on Application-oriented Computational Social Choice, Germany, 2019
Invited Speaker at the Deakin Theory Workshop in Honour of Prof. William Thomson, Deakin University, 2019.
Invited Speaker, George Institute, Sydney 2019.
Invited Speaker at the Economic Design and Algorithms Conference in St. Petersburg (July 8-10, 2019)
Invited Panelist on "Games, Agents, Incentives, and Society" at the GAIW workshop in Montreal, Canada (13th May, 2019).
Invited Speaker at The Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2018.
Invited Speaker at CPDM Workshop on Market Design 2018.
Invited speaker at Mike'75 + 10th Anniversary of the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications (DIMAP), University of Warwick
Keynote speaker at the ACSW (Australasian Computer Science Week) 2017.
Keynote speaker at the Australian ICT Summer School 2017.
Keynote speaker at the ASOR (Australian Society for Operations Research) conference 2016.
Plenary Speaker at Applied Informatics and Technology Innovation Conference, Australia, Nov 2016
Early Career Spotlight Invited Talk at IJCAI 2016 (Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence), New York, USA.
Invited Speaker at the inauguration of the Game Theory Laboratory, High School of Economics, St.Petersburg, Russia, 2016
Invited Speaker at The Third International Workshop on Market Design Technologies for Sustainable Development, Japan, 2015
Invited speaker at The COST Action IC1205 meeting on Fair Division and Matching (Glasgow, UK) sponsored by Horizon 2020: The EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, 2015
Other Invitations
Dagstuhl Seminar on Application-oriented Computational Social Choice, Germany, 2019
Dagstuhl Seminar on Voting, Germany, June 2017
Dagstuhl Seminar on Fair Division, Germany, June 2016
Dagstuhl Seminar on Computational Social Choice: Theory and Applications, Germany, June 2015
Invited Tutorial on Computational Social Choice at the Australasian AI conference, 2015
Invited Tutorial on Computational Social Choice at The 13th Pacific Rim International Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI), 2014
Invited Talk at the Inauguration of the UTS Centre for Policy and Market Design, Sydney (2013)
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Singapore, January 2013
Invited Talk at the Students' Conference on Nonlinear and Discrete Optimization, Mathematics Department Workshop, TUM), July, 2012
Invited Talk at the 24th European Conference on Operational Research, session on `combinatorial optimization and algorithmic game theory', Lisbon, Portugal, July 2010.
Awards of Supervised or Mentored Students or Student Collaborators
Barton Lee won the 2018 John McMillan Prize for the Best Paper in Economics by a UNSW PhD Student.
Simon Mackenzie was awarded the UNSW Engineering Best Thesis Award.
Simon Mackenzie was awarded the UNSW/CSE 2016 Best Research Paper Prize for our joint paper.
Pang Luo was awarded first prize in NICTA Summer Scholars Program 2015-2016 for his project on using SAT solvers for social choice problems.
Martin Aleksandrov was the recipient of the IJCAI 2015 Computational Sustainability Track Outstanding Student Paper Award for our joint paper “Online Fair Division: analysing a Food Bank problem”.
Bart de Keijzer received the Centro Stefano Franscini Award for the best presentation by a young scientist at the Matching Markets Conference (20-23 May, 2012) in Ascona, Switzerland. His prize was based on our joint paper "Housing Markets with Indifferences: a Tale of Two Mechanisms".