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., Psomas, A., Procaccia, A., Kazachkov, A., Zeng, D. (In Press). "Fair and efficient online allocations", Operations Research
  • Benade, J. (In Press). "Achieving Rawlsian justice in food rescue", https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3617694
  • Benade, J., Procaccia, A., Tucker-Foltz, J. (In Press). "You can have your cake and redistrict it too", Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2023
  • 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. Preference elicitation for participatory budgeting, Computational social choice seminar series, Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute, 2023
  • Benade, J. Fairness and efficiency in online allocations, Operations management seminar series, University of Rochester, 2023
  • Benade, J. Fairness, stability and the pursuit of happiness in recommender systems, INFORMS annual meeting, Phoenix, AZ, 2023
  • Benade, J. Fairness, stability and the pursuit of happiness in recommender systems, Management seminar series, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, 2023
  • Benade, J. , Sahoo, N. Stability, Fairness and the Pursuit of Happiness in Recommender Systems, Statistical Challenges in E-commerce Research, 2023
  • Benade, J. , Sahoo, N. Stability, Fairness and the Pursuit of Happiness in Recommender Systems, FoRMLA seminar, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2023
  • 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
    Awards and Honors
  • 2021, Distinguished PC member