Lirong Xia
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
United States of America
Biography
Lirong Xia is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Prior to joining RPI in 2013, he was a CRCS fellow and NSF CI Fellow at the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard University. He received his PhD in Computer Science and MA in Economics from Duke University. His research focuses on the intersection of computer science and microeconomics, in particular computational social choice, game theory, mechanism design, and prediction markets. He is an associate editor of Mathematical Social Sciences and is on the editorial board of Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, a Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship, and was named as one of "AI's 10 to watch 2015" by IEEE Intelligent Systems.
Research Interest
computational social choice, game theory, mechanism design
Publications
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Erika Mackin and Lirong Xia. Allocating Indivisible Items in Categorized Domains. In Proceedings of the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-16).
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Zhibing Zhao, Peter Piech, and Lirong Xia. Learning Mixtures of Plackett-Luce Models. In Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-16).
