
{"id":827,"date":"2024-12-19T12:15:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T17:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aamas2025.org\/?page_id=827"},"modified":"2025-05-02T11:36:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T15:36:37","slug":"victor-lesser-distinguished-dissertation-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aamas2025.org\/index.php\/conference\/awards\/victor-lesser-distinguished-dissertation-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award is given for dissertations in the field of autonomous agents and multiagent systems that show originality, depth, impact, as well as quality of writing, supported by high-quality publications.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2024 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award committee (Nisarg Shah (Chair); Gauthier Picard; Long Tran-Thanh; and Bryan Wilder) has recommended the following recipients for the 2024 awards (winner and runner-up).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Winner<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/jannikpeters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jannik Peters<\/a> <br>Thesis title:<\/strong>&nbsp;Facets of Proportionality: Selecting Committees, Budgets, and Clusters<br><strong>Supervisor:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/brillmarkus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Markus Brill<\/a><strong><br>University:<\/strong>&nbsp;TU Berlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Runner-Up<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lily-x.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lily Xu<\/a><br>Thesis title:<\/strong>&nbsp;High-stakes decisions from low-quality data: AI decision-making for planetary health<br><strong>Supervisor:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/teamcore.seas.harvard.edu\/tambe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Prof. Milind Tambe<\/a><strong><br>University:<\/strong>&nbsp;Harvard University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Lesser\">Invited talk<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/jannikpeters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jannik Peters<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-rounded\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/aamas2025.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/JannikPeters.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2543\" style=\"width:212px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aamas2025.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/JannikPeters.jpg 350w, https:\/\/aamas2025.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/JannikPeters-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aamas2025.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/JannikPeters-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TITLE: <\/strong>Facets of Proportionality: Selecting Committees, Budgets, and Clusters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DATE &amp; TIME:<\/strong>&nbsp;Wednesday, May 21, 4:30PM \u2013 5:30PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LOCATION:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aamas2025.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/3RD_FLOOR.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/aamas2025.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/3RD_FLOOR.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ambassador Ballroom Salons 1+2<\/a>, 3rd Floor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CHAIR:<\/strong>&nbsp;Paolo Turrini<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ABSTRACT:<\/strong> Proportionality is a key concept in computational social choice: if we make a collective decision, this decision should reflect every group of agents taking part in the decision-making proportionally. But what does &#8220;proportionally&#8221; mean exactly? How can we define it and which definitions are meaningful? I will try to answer these questions by giving an overview of my thesis dealing with proportionality in the contexts of multiwinner voting, participatory budgeting, and clustering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BIO:<\/strong> Jannik Peters is a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the TU Berlin advised by Markus Brill and M.Sc and B.Sc degrees from the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam. His research deals with issues in computational social choice and voting theory, in particular with the theory of proportional representation and fairness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award The Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award is given for dissertations in the field of autonomous agents and multiagent systems that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":192,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aamas2025.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aamas2025.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aamas2025.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aamas2025.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aamas2025.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/aamas2025.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2544,"href":"https:\/\/aamas2025.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/827\/revisions\/2544"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aamas2025.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aamas2025.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}