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.

    Publications
  • Benade, J., Gal, K., Fairstein, R. (In Press). "Participatory Budgeting Design for the Real World", Proceedings of the ... AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Benade, J., Psomas, A., Halpern, D. (In Press). "Dynamic Fair Division with Partial Information", Advances in neural information processing systems
  • Benade, J., Nath, S., Procaccia, A., Shah, N. (In Press). "Preference elicitation for participatory budgeting", Management Science
  • 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
  • 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
    Research Presentations
  • Benade, J. , Sahoo, N. Stability, Fairness and the Pursuit of Happiness in Recommender Systems, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022
  • Benade, J. Stability, fairness and the pursuit of happiness in recommender systems, WITS - Workshop on information systems and technologies, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022
  • Benade, J. Dynamic Fair Division with Partial Information, Dagstuhl workshop - computational social dynamics, Wadern, Germany, 2022
  • Benade, J. Stability, fairness and the pursuit of happiness in recommender systems, EconCS seminar series, Harvard University, 2022
  • Benade, J. Dynamic Fair Division with Partial Information, Tufts Graph algorithms and computational social choice seminar series, 2022
  • Benade, J. Participatory budgeting designs for the real world, Dagstuhl workshop: Algorithms for participatory democracy, Wadern, Germany, 2022
  • Benade, J. You can have your cake and redistrict it too, Informs Annual meeting 2021, Anaheim CA/remotely, 2021
  • Benade, J. , Ho-Nguyen, N. , Hooker, J. Robust political districting, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2020, Online, 2020
  • Benade, J. Preference elicitation for participatory budgeting, Workshop on the Distortion and Information-Efficiency Tradeoffs, Virtual, 2020
    Awards and Honors
  • 2021, Distinguished PC member