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Parkes was elected a Fellow of the Game Theory Society in 2025, an international group created in 1999 by Ehud Kalai and Robert Aumann to support research, teaching, and real-world uses of game theory across economics, math, computer science, and biology.

I was honored to go back to Penn as the 2026 Penn Engineering Commencement speaker for their graduating PhD students.

I was honored to receive the 2026 SIGecom Test of Time award, for my paper “ Adaptive limited-supply online auctions” (EC’04) with M. Hajiaghayi and R. Kleinberg, which was awarded along with the paper “Automated Online Mechanism Design and Prophet...

Our paper, “ Inner Speech as Behavior Guides: Steerable Imitation of Diverse Behaviors for Human-AI coordination,” with R. Trivedi and K. Sharma, received a Spotlight Talk at NeurIPS 2025.

David C. Parkes receives John McCarthy Award. SEAS Dean recognized for foundational contributions to AI

"Inner speech as behavior guides: Steerable imitation of diverse behaviors for Human-AI coordination” appears as a Spotlight, NeurIPS 2025

PNAS paper on Deep mechanism design