When: Friday, October 11, 2024 | 18:30-20:30
Where: DC — 6th Level Auditorium, The American College of Greece

Organized by:
Deree School of Graduate and Professional Education, The American College of Greece 

About the Event

How do (human or artificial) agents make choices when they are part of a group, and how can we help them be accurate, efficient, and fair? This talk will introduce the field of computational social choice, which utilizes tools from economics and computer science to answer questions about collective decision-making. We will explore the potential and challenges of using neural networks to learn and improve voting rules. Given the opacity of modern AI methods, we will discuss ways to ensure that the induced voting rules are transparent and interpretable, setting up a safety net for their widespread adoption. 

The event is free and open to the public.

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About the speaker

Zoi Terzopoulou is a junior professor at the Saint-Etienne School of Economics in France. Her research lies at the intersection of Economics and Computer Science, with a focus on formal models of computational social choice capturing realistic conditions of collective decision-making. She previously was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Paris-Dauphine under an individual Marie-Curie fellowship. Before that, she was awarded a PhD diploma from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, where she also obtained an MSc degree in Logic. She holds a BSc degree in mathematics from the University of Athens, Greece. She has published extensively in highly esteemed venues in Computer Science and Economics—notably in the IJCAI, AAAI, and AAMAS conferences, the Journal of Social Choice and Welfare, and the Journal of Mathematical Economics.