{"id":10006,"date":"2024-08-06T16:42:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T20:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom\/profiles\/gerdus-benade\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T15:51:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:51:05","slug":"gerdus-benade","status":"publish","type":"profiles","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom\/profiles\/gerdus-benade\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerdus Benade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull profile__standard-wrapper has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns profile__columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column profile__left-column is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-3bd72ab2 wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><figure class=\"profile__image wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gerdus Benade\" style=\"object-fit:contain\" class=\"wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/questromapps.bu.edu\/images\/facstaff\/BenadeGerdus.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<aside class=\"profile__contact profile__contact--api wp-block-amp-profile-contact\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n  <h5>Contact<\/h5>\n  <div class=\"profile__contact-row\">\n          <div class=\"profile__contact-cell profile__contact-cell--phone\">\n        <h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-h-8-font-size\" style=\"font-weight: 500; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 0px;\">\n        Phone\n      <\/h6>\n      <p class=\"has-p-2-font-size\" itemprop=\"telephone\">\n        617-353-4433      <\/p>\n    <\/div>\n              <div class=\"profile__contact-cell profile__contact-cell--email\">\n        <h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-h-8-font-size\" style=\"font-weight: 500; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 0px;\">\n        Email\n      <\/h6>\n      <p class=\"has-p-2-font-size\">\n        <a href=\"mailto:benade@bu.edu\" itemprop=\"email\">\n          benade@bu.edu        <\/a>\n      <\/p>\n    <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"profile__contact-buttons\">\n              <div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-primary-button\">\n          <a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/questromapps.bu.edu\/faculty\/uploadFiles\/cvUploadsProfile\/IS_Benade_Gerdus_CV.pdf\">\n            Download CV\n          <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-primary-button\">\n          <a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gerdusbenade.com\/\" itemprop=\"url\">\n            Visit Website\n          <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"profile__contact-row\">\n\n              <div class=\"profile__contact-cell profile__contact-cell--office\">\n          <h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-h-8-font-size\" style=\"font-weight: 500; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 0px;\">\n          Office\n        <\/h6>\n        <p class=\"has-p-2-font-size\" itemprop=\"workLocation\">\n          627A        <\/p>\n      <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"profile__contact-cell profile__contact-cell--bu\">\n          <h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-h-8-font-size\" style=\"font-weight: 500; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 0px\">\n            Boston University <br \/>\n            Questrom School of Business\n          <\/h6>\n                        <p class=\"has-p-2-font-size\" itemprop=\"address\">\n                Rafik B. Hariri Building <br \/>\n                595 Commonwealth Avenue <br \/>\n                Boston, MA 02215\n              <\/p>\n                  <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n  <\/aside><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column profile__right-column is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-3bd72ab2 wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group profile__header-container has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7db9d80f wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group profile__header-content has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><h1 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Gerdus Benade<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"alignfull wp-block-amp-profile-position\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-transform-uppercase has-p-2-font-size\" style=\"text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: 600\">\n\t\t\tAssistant Professor, Information Systems\t\t<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-amp-profile-bio\">\n\t<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-amp-profile-data profile-data\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group profile__data-section has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained wp-block-amp-profile-presentations\">\n\t<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-weight: 500\">\n\tSelected Research Presentations\t<\/h5>\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-group profile__data-row has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\t\t<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Benade, G. Achieving Rawlsian justice in food rescue, MIT CIT seminar series, Boston, USA, 2025<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Benade, G. Achieving Rawlsian justice in food rescue, INFORMS annual meeting, service science award session, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2025<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Benade, G. Achieving Rawlsian justice in food rescue, INFORMS Annual meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2025<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Benade, G. Achieving Rawlsian justice in food rescue, UCL Operations &#038; Technology seminar series, London, UK, 2025<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Benade, G. Achieving Rawlsian justice in food rescue, Dagstuhl workshop &#8211; Computational social choice and social impact, Wadern, Germany, 2025<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Benade, G. Achieving Rawlsian justice in food rescue, Technical University Munich, CS seminar series, Munich, Germany, 2025<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Benade, G. Achieving Rawlsian justice in food rescue, Harvard University Econ-CS seminar series, Boston, USA, 2025<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Benade, G. Achieving Rawlsian justice in food rescue, Worcestor Polytechnic Institute seminar series, Worcester, MA, USA, 2025<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Benade, G. Achieving Rawlsian justice in food rescue, University of Toronto &#8211; Rotman Young Scholar series, Virtual, 2025<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Benade, G. Achieving Rawlsian justice in food rescue, MSOM SIG day, London, UK, 2025<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Benade, G. Necessary and sufficient winners of forecasting competitions, Statistical Challenges in E-Commerce Research (SCECR), Cyprus, 2025<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Benade, G. Fairness and efficiency in online allocations, Northeastern University CS theory seminar series, Boston, MA, USA, 2025<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Benade, G. Fairness and efficiency in online allocations, Stellenbosch University &#8211; Industrial Engineering seminar, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 2025<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Benade, G. Achieving Rawlsian justice in food rescue, COMSOC International Seminar Series on Social Choice, Virtual, 2024<\/p>\t\t<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group profile__data-section has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained wp-block-amp-profile-publications\">\n\t<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-weight: 500\">\n\tPublications\t<\/h5>\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-group profile__data-row has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\t<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Benade, G., Lavastida, T., Das, R. (In Press). &#8220;Offline Local Search for Online Stochastic Bandits&#8221;, <\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Benade, J., Nath, S., Procaccia, A., Shah, N. (In Press). &#8220;Preference elicitation for participatory budgeting&#8221;, <i>Management Science<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Benad\u00e8, G., Das, R., Lavastida, T. (2025). &#8220;Brief Announcement: Stochastic Parallel Scheduling with Bandit Feedback&#8221;, <i>Proceedings of the 37th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures<\/i> 618-622<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Benade, J., Psomas, A., Procaccia, A., Kazachkov, A., Zeng, D. (2023). &#8220;Fair and efficient online allocations&#8221;, <i>Operations Research<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Benade, J. (2023). &#8220;Achieving Rawlsian justice in food rescue&#8221;, <i>https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/proceedings\/10.1145\/3617694<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Benade, J., Procaccia, A., Tucker-Foltz, J. (2023). &#8220;You can have your cake and redistrict it too&#8221;, <i>Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation<\/i>, <i>2023<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Fairstein, R., Benad\u00e8, G., Gal, K. (2023). &#8220;Participatory Budgeting Designs for the Real World&#8221;, <i>Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence<\/i>, <i>37<\/i> (5),  5633-5640<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Benade, J., Psomas, A., Halpern, D. (2022). &#8220;Dynamic Fair Division with Partial Information&#8221;, <i>Advances in neural information processing systems<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Benade, J., Ho-Nguyen, N., Hooker, J. (2022). &#8220;Political Districting without Geography&#8221;, <i>Operations Research Perspectives<\/i>, <i>9<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Benad\u00e8, G., Hooker, J. 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