Gerdus Benade
Assistant Professor, Information Systems
Gerdus Benade is an assistant professor in the Information Systems department. 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.
Selected Research Presentations
Benade, G. Achieving Rawlsian justice in food rescue, MIT CIT seminar series, Boston, USA, 2025
Benade, G. Achieving Rawlsian justice in food rescue, INFORMS annual meeting, service science award session, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2025
Benade, G. Achieving Rawlsian justice in food rescue, INFORMS Annual meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2025
Benade, G. Achieving Rawlsian justice in food rescue, UCL Operations & Technology seminar series, London, UK, 2025
Benade, G. Achieving Rawlsian justice in food rescue, Dagstuhl workshop – Computational social choice and social impact, Wadern, Germany, 2025
Benade, G. Achieving Rawlsian justice in food rescue, Technical University Munich, CS seminar series, Munich, Germany, 2025
Benade, G. Achieving Rawlsian justice in food rescue, Harvard University Econ-CS seminar series, Boston, USA, 2025
Benade, G. Achieving Rawlsian justice in food rescue, Worcestor Polytechnic Institute seminar series, Worcester, MA, USA, 2025
Benade, G. Achieving Rawlsian justice in food rescue, University of Toronto – Rotman Young Scholar series, Virtual, 2025
Benade, G. Achieving Rawlsian justice in food rescue, MSOM SIG day, London, UK, 2025
Benade, G. Necessary and sufficient winners of forecasting competitions, Statistical Challenges in E-Commerce Research (SCECR), Cyprus, 2025
Benade, G. Fairness and efficiency in online allocations, Northeastern University CS theory seminar series, Boston, MA, USA, 2025
Benade, G. Fairness and efficiency in online allocations, Stellenbosch University – Industrial Engineering seminar, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 2025
Benade, G. Achieving Rawlsian justice in food rescue, COMSOC International Seminar Series on Social Choice, Virtual, 2024
Publications
Benade, G., Lavastida, T., Das, R. (In Press). “Offline Local Search for Online Stochastic Bandits”,
Benade, J., Nath, S., Procaccia, A., Shah, N. (In Press). “Preference elicitation for participatory budgeting”, Management Science
Benadè, G., Das, R., Lavastida, T. (2025). “Brief Announcement: Stochastic Parallel Scheduling with Bandit Feedback”, Proceedings of the 37th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures 618-622
Benade, J., Psomas, A., Procaccia, A., Kazachkov, A., Zeng, D. (2023). “Fair and efficient online allocations”, Operations Research
Benade, J. (2023). “Achieving Rawlsian justice in food rescue”, https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3617694
Benade, J., Procaccia, A., Tucker-Foltz, J. (2023). “You can have your cake and redistrict it too”, Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2023
Fairstein, R., Benadè, G., Gal, K. (2023). “Participatory Budgeting Designs for the Real World”, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 37 (5), 5633-5640
Benade, J., Psomas, A., Halpern, D. (2022). “Dynamic Fair Division with Partial Information”, Advances in neural information processing systems
Benade, J., Ho-Nguyen, N., Hooker, J. (2022). “Political Districting without Geography”, Operations Research Perspectives, 9
Benadè, G., Hooker, J. (2019). “Optimization Bounds from the Branching Dual”, INFORMS Journal on Computing
Benade, J., Goelz, P., Procaccia, A. (2019). “No stratification without representation”, ACM
Benade, G., Kazachkov, A., Procaccia, A., Psomas, C. (2018). “How to Make Envy Vanish Over Time”, Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation 593-610
Benade, J., Nath, S., Procaccia, A., Shah, N. (2017). “Preference elicitation for participatory budgeting”,
Murrell, B., Weighill, T., Buys, J., Ketteringham, R., Moola, S., Benade, G., du Buisson, L., Kaliski, D., Hands, T., Scheffler, K. (2011). “Non-Negative Matrix Factorization for Learning Alignment-Specific Models of Protein Evolution”, PLoS ONE, 6 (12), e28898-e28898