Best PhD Paper Award to Arnav Sood (Carnegie Mellon University) for his paper "Frequentist Persuasion" joint with James Best (Carnegie Mellon University).

This award was selected by the Program Committee, consisting of Simona Fabrizi (in the photo), Steffen Lippert and Matthew Ryan, among the full-papers submitted to the workshop.

Best PhD Presentation Award to Michael Demetrius (University of Auckland) for his presentation of "Democratic Deliberation with Endogenous Preferences" (single-authored).

This award was selected based on the highest score received by "popular" vote, on votes casted, live, by attendees, in each of the sessions where PhD students presented their research work.