# David C. Parkes ![David Parkes](/sites/g/files/omnuum8711/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/parkes/files/img_people_parkes_home.jpg?itok=5By7WMgh) ## David C. Parkes ### John A. Paulson Dean George F. Colony Professor of Computer Science #### Research Interests Multi-agent AI, Bounded rationality, Machine learning and decisions, Multi-agent reinforcement learning, Intelligence architectures, Fair machine learning, Game theory, Algorithmic economics, Auction design, Market design, Mechanism design, Preference elicitation. ### Office hours Generally weekly, 5p, Mon, Tue or Wed, write to aking - at - seas.harvard.edu for sign up information. ### Teaching - [Applied Math 121 / Engineering Sciences 121](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/156714) - [CS 136: Economics and Computation](https://sites.google.com/g.harvard.edu/cs136/) - [CS 181: Machine Learning](https://harvard-ml-courses.github.io/cs181-web/) - [CS 285: Multi-Agent Systems](https://www.seas.harvard.edu/courses/cs285/CS_285/Course_Home.html) - [CS290: PhD Grad Cohort Research Seminar](https://yanivyacoby.github.io/harvard-cs290-2021-2022/) ### At Harvard - [Economics and Computer Science Research Group](https://econcs.seas.harvard.edu/) - [Harvard Data Science Initiative](https://datascience.harvard.edu/) - [Harvard Business Analytics Program](https://analytics.hbs.edu/) ### Contact Information Science and Engineering Complex 150 Western Ave, 5.303 Boston, MA 02134 (617) 384-8130 Faculty Coordinator Ann Marie King Dean's Executive Assistant Michael Aube ## Recent News [### NeurIPS Paper appears as a Spotlight, 2025 ](https://neurips.cc/virtual/2025/loc/san-diego/poster/119423) November 23, 2025 [### PNAS paper on Deep mechanism design ](https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2319949121) June 01, 2025 [### Masters of Data Science recognized ](https://fortune.com/education/information-technology/masters/rankings/best-masters-in-data-science/) May 01, 2025 [### Science paper on AI to help with democratic deliberation ](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq2852) October 01, 2024 [### GemNet paper selected as the Exemplary AI Track Paper in ACM EC’24 ](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07428) July 01, 2024 ## Ph.D. Students [### Jeff Jiang ](https://yanchenjiang.github.io/) ![Jeff](/sites/g/files/omnuum8711/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/parkes/files/wechatimg414.jpeg?itok=CMmnhl_Q) [### Gary Qiurui Ma ](https://www.gary-qiurui-ma.com) ![Gary Qiurui Ma](/sites/g/files/omnuum8711/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/parkes/files/img-people-qiurui_ma_1.png?itok=IrAtSqDZ) [### Gili Rusak ](/people/gili-rusak-rusak) ![Gil](/sites/g/files/omnuum8711/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/parkes/files/gili_rusak.jpg?itok=BC_JubYM) [### Kehang Zhu ](https://kehang-zhu.github.io/) ![KehangZhu](/sites/g/files/omnuum8711/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/parkes/files/kehangzhu.jpg?itok=GUG-e-Ma) ## Recent Publications Download 6 citations download- [BibTeX](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_publicationauthors12%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_publicationcategory1%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_publicationyear123%5D&&&format=bibtex) - [EndNote X3 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_publicationauthors12%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_publicationcategory1%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_publicationyear123%5D&&&format=endnote8) - [EndNote 7 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_publicationauthors12%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_publicationcategory1%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_publicationyear123%5D&&&format=endnote7) - [Endnote tagged](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_publicationauthors12%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_publicationcategory1%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_publicationyear123%5D&&&format=tagged) - [Marc](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_publicationauthors12%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_publicationcategory1%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_publicationyear123%5D&&&format=marc) - [PubMedId](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_publicationauthors12%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_publicationcategory1%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_publicationyear123%5D&&&format=pubmed_id) - [RIS](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_publicationauthors12%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_publicationcategory1%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_publicationyear123%5D&&&format=ris) ### Working Paper L. Hammond *et al.*, “[Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.14143)”. 2025. L. Hammond *et al.*, “[Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.14143)”. 2025. - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14143) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14143) E. Soumalias, Y. Jiang, K. Zhu, M. Curry, S. Seuken, and D. C. Parkes, “[LLM-Powered Preference Elicitation in Combinatorial Assignment](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10308)”, 2025, doi: CoRR abs/2502.10308. E. Soumalias, Y. Jiang, K. Zhu, M. Curry, S. Seuken, and D. C. Parkes, “[LLM-Powered Preference Elicitation in Combinatorial Assignment](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10308)”, 2025, doi: CoRR abs/2502.10308. B. E. Lee, D. J. Moroz, and D. C. Parkes, “[An Analysis of Blockchain Governance via Political Economics](https://www.dropbox.com/s/adfvbeslt20hqpq/Lee_Moroz_Parkes-2019.pdf?dl=0)”, *2021*. B. E. Lee, D. J. Moroz, and D. C. Parkes, “[An Analysis of Blockchain Governance via Political Economics](https://www.dropbox.com/s/adfvbeslt20hqpq/Lee_Moroz_Parkes-2019.pdf?dl=0)”, *2021*. D. J. Moroz, D. J. Aronoff, N. Narula, and D. C. Parkes, “[Double-Spend Counterattacks: Threat of Retaliation in Proof-of-Work Systems](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.10736.pdf)”, *CoRR abs/2002.10736*. D. J. Moroz, D. J. Aronoff, N. Narula, and D. C. Parkes, “[Double-Spend Counterattacks: Threat of Retaliation in Proof-of-Work Systems](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.10736.pdf)”, *CoRR abs/2002.10736*. ### 2025 A. Tacchetti *et al.*, “[Deep mechanism design: Learning social and economic policies for human benefit.](https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2319949121)”, *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America*, vol. 122, no. 25, p. e2319949121, 2025, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2319949121. A. Tacchetti *et al.*, “[Deep mechanism design: Learning social and economic policies for human benefit.](https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2319949121)”, *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America*, vol. 122, no. 25, p. e2319949121, 2025, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2319949121. - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract Human society is coordinated by mechanisms that control how prices are agreed, taxes are set, and electoral votes are tallied. The design of robust and effective mechanisms for human benefit is a core problem in the social, economic, and political... M. Curry, Z. Fan, Y. Jiang, S. S. Ravindranath, T. Wang, and D. C. Parkes, “[Automated Mechanism Design: A Survey](https://www.sigecom.org/exchanges/volume_22/2/CURRY.pdf)”, *ACM SIGecom Exchanges*, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 102–120, 2025. M. Curry, Z. Fan, Y. Jiang, S. S. Ravindranath, T. Wang, and D. C. Parkes, “[Automated Mechanism Design: A Survey](https://www.sigecom.org/exchanges/volume_22/2/CURRY.pdf)”, *ACM SIGecom Exchanges*, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 102–120, 2025. [ More arrow\_circle\_right ](/publications) ## Postdocs [### Keyon Vafa ](https://keyonvafa.com/) ![Keyon](/sites/g/files/omnuum8711/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/parkes/files/headshot.jpg?itok=ECRoDwfQ)