Ariel Procaccia named ACM Fellow

Ariel Procaccia, the Alfred and Rebecca Lin Professor of Computer Science in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has been named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest society of computing professionals.

Procaccia was cited for his contributions to “artificial intelligence, algorithms and society, including foundational work and practical impact.”

Procaccia’s research intersects artificial intelligence, computational social choice, and algorithmic fairness. His work has focused on the design of algorithms for resource allocation and collective decision-making. Among his recent projects have been fair and practical systems for dividing goods, voting, and choosing citizens’ assemblies.

At SEAS, Procaccia teaches a course called “Optimized Democracy” on the mathematical and algorithmic foundations of democracy to give students a better understanding, and a technical toolbox for the design of democratic systems.

Procaccia is among 71 new fellows elected this year.  The honorees hail from 14 countries and were chosen from among ACM’s global membership of more than 100,000 computing professionals.

In 2024, Procaccia was elected to the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) as a Fellow. He has received the 2015 Computers and Thought Award from the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), a Sloan Research Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2020 Social Choice and Welfare Prize. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.