{"id":20463,"date":"2020-06-08T17:03:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T21:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=20463"},"modified":"2023-10-18T12:52:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T16:52:33","slug":"gerdus-benade","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/gerdus-benade\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerdus Benade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom\/profile\/gerdus-benade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gerdus Benade<\/a> is an Assistant Professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom\/faculty-research\/faculty-directory\/gerdus-benade\/\">Information Systems<\/a> Department at Questrom School of Business. His research considers questions at the intersection of computer science and economics, like making group decisions under uncertainty and the fair division of resources in dynamic settings. He is particularly interested in applications of optimization and computational social choice to traditionally political issues like voting, participatory budgeting and political districting or gerrymandering. Before coming to Boston, he completed his PhD in Operations Research in the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was fortunate to be advised by <a href=\"http:\/\/procaccia.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ariel D. Procaccia<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/public.tepper.cmu.edu\/jnh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Hooker<\/a>. He also had the opportunity to work with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/qualizza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrea Qualizza<\/a>\u00a0in the supply chain optimization technologies (SCOT) team at Amazon in the summer of 2017. Before moving to the US he completed an MSc degree under\u00a0Jan van Vuuren\u00a0and Alewyn Burger at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gerdusbenade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Website\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=o8048ZwAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Scholar Profile<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8550,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/20463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8550"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/20463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29550,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/20463\/revisions\/29550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}