Computational Social Choice Group
We carry out research in Computational Social Choice,
broadly conceived, as well as in Multiagent Systems, Knowledge Representation, and AI more generally,
and belong to the Theoretical Computer Science
research unit at the ILLC. The group runs the
Computational Social Choice Seminar.
Check out this flyer for an impression of what we do.
Members
- Ulle Endriss (head of group), since July 2005
- four postdoc/PhD positions to be filled in 2025 and 2026
Faculty members at the ILLC with closely related interests at the interface of Computer Science with Economics include Davide Grossi, Ronald de Haan, Guido Schäfer, and Rebecca Reiffenhäuser.
Former Members
- Georgios Amanatidis (part-time Postdoc, 2020/2021), now Assistant Professor at Athens University of Economics and Business
- Stéphane Airiau (Postdoc 2008-2012), now Assistant Professor at Paris-Dauphine University
- Pierre Bisquert (Postdoc 2015/2016), now tenured research scientist at INRA Montpellier
- Suzanne Bloks (Research Assistant, 2019/2020), received PhD from Hamburg University in 2024
- Arthur Boixel (PhD Candidate, 2018-2022)
- Sirin Botan (PhD 2021), then Postdoc at University of New South Wales, Sydney
- Olivier Cailloux (Postdoc 2013-2014), now Assistant Professor at Paris-Dauphine University
- Weiwei Chen (visiting PhD Candidate, 2016/2017), now Associate Professor at Sun Yat-sen University
- Julian Chingoma (PhD 2025)
- Federico Fioravanti (Postdoc 2023-2025), now Postdoc at Saint-Etienne School of Economics
- Umberto Grandi (PhD 2012), now Full Professor at IRIT, University of Toulouse
- Ronald de Haan (Postdoc, 2017-2019), now Assistant Professor at ILLC
- Adrian Haret (Postdoc, 2020-2023), now Assistant Professor at LMU Munich
- Jan Maly (Postdoc, 2021-2023), now Assistant Professor at Vienna University of Economics and Business
- Oliviero Nardi (Research Assistant, 2021/2022), now PhD Candidate at TU Wien
- Arianna Novaro (Postdoc 2020/2021), now Assistant Professor at Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Paris 1)
- Daniele Porello (Postdoc, 2009-2012), now Associate Professor at University of Genova
- Simon Rey (PhD 2023, Senior Programmer 2023/2024)
- Zoi Terzopoulou (PhD 2021), now Assistant Professor at Saint-Etienne School of Economics
- Joel Uckelman (PhD 2009), then founder at Lightbox Technologies, Inc.
- Markus Utke (Programmer, 2023), now PhD Candidate at TU Eindhoven
PhD Theses
Research Funding
- NWO VIDI Grant on Collective Decision Making in Combinatorial Domains (2008-2012)
People: U. Endriss (PI), S. Airiau (Postdoc), U. Grandi (PhD Candidate)
Value: ~730kEUR (incl. UvA matching funds)
- ESF-NWO LogiCCC Project on Computational Foundations of Social Choice (2009-2011)
People: U. Endriss (PI), D. Porello (Postdoc)
+ several partner institutions
Value: 200kEUR (to UvA)
- NWO Vrije Competitie Grant on Aggregation of Preferences over Uncertain Outcomes (2011-2014)
People: U. Endriss (PI), S. Airiau (Postdoc and proposal coauthor), O. Cailloux (Postdoc)
Value: 223kEUR
- COST Action 1205 on Computational Social Choice (2012-2016)
People: U. Endriss (PI) + 32 European partner countries + partner institutions from 7 further countries
Value: ~670kEUR
- NWO TOP1 Grant on Customisable Collective Choice (2017-2023)
People: U. Endriss (PI), Z. Terzopoulou (PhD Candidate), A. Boixel (PhD Candidate), R. de Haan (Postdoc), A. Haret (Postdoc), O. Nardi (RA)
Value: 666kEUR
- NWO VICI Grant on Collective Information (2019-2025)
People: U. Endriss (PI), S. Bloks (RA), S. Rey (PhD Candidate & Programmer), S. Botan (PhD Candidate), A. Novaro (Postdoc), J. Chingoma (PhD Candidate), A. Haret (Postdoc), F. Fioravanti (Postdoc), M. Utke (Programmer)
Value: 1,500kEUR
- ERC Synergy Grant on Advancing Digitial Democratic Innovation (2025-2031)
People: U. Endriss (PI), multiple vacancies + three partner institutions
Value: 2,396kEUR (to UvA)
We also were involved in COST Action IC0602 on Algorithmic Decision Theory (2007-2011), which provided funding for networking amongst researchers in AI and decision analysis in Europe, and in the GloriClass research training site for Logic and Games at the ILLC (2006-2010). Individual group members furthermore have been supported by a variety of grant schemes, including two FWF Schrödinger Fellowships, a fellowship from the Guangzhou Elite Project, and an AgreenSkills Fellowship.
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