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AI-Powered Group Decision Making

07 Mar
Tuesday, 03/07/2023 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Computer Science Building, Room 150/151
Seminar
Speaker: Lirong Xia

Title: AI-Powered Group Decision Making

Abstract: Making fair, efficient, and trustworthy collective decisions for groups of agents has become a significant concern among the public in the past decade in a wide range of scenarios, such as elections, public policy making, recommender systems, crowdsourcing, and blockchain governance. Unfortunately, in many cases, the architectures and mechanisms are suboptimal and far below people's expectations.

In this talk, I will present our work on the theory and practice of building AI-powered group decision making systems to improve fairness, efficiency, and trustworthiness in the processes of modeling, learning, and aggregation of preferences. Our approach is highly multi-disciplinary and is based on leveraging principles, ideas, and methodologies from disciplines including behavioral sciences, economics, political science, statistics, and computer science.

Bio: Lirong Xia is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Prior to joining RPI in 2013, he was a CRCS fellow and NSF CI Fellow at the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and M.A. in Economics from Duke University. His research focuses on the intersection of computer science and microeconomics. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, a Rensselaer James M. Tien'66 Early Career Award, and was named as one of "AI's 10 to watch" by IEEE Intelligent Systems.

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