David C. Parkes
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
Fall 2025: Thursdays, 4.45-5.30p. aking - at - seas.harvard.edu for a meeting time
Contact Information
Science and Engineering Complex
150 Western Ave, 5.303
Boston, MA 02134
(617) 384-8130
parkes@eecs.harvard.edu
Faculty Coordinator
Ann Marie King
aking@seas.harvard.edu
Dean's Executive Assistant
Michael Aube
maube@g.harvard.edu
Recent News
Ph.D. Students
Recent Publications
Working Paper
Tonghan Wang, Yanchen Jiang, and David Parkes. 2025. "BundleFlow: Deep Menus for Combinatorial Auctions by Diffusion-Based Optimization". https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15283.
Tonghan Wang, Yanchen Jiang, and David Parkes. 2025. "BundleFlow: Deep Menus for Combinatorial Auctions by Diffusion-Based Optimization". https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15283.
Lewis Hammond, Alan Chan, Jesse Clifton, Jason Hoelscher-Obermaier, Akbir Khan, Euan McLean, Chandler Smith, Wolfram Barfuss, Jakob Foerster, Tomáš Gavenčiak, The Han, Edward Hughes, Vojtěch Kovařík, Jan Kulveit, Joel Leibo, Caspar Oesterheld, Christian de Witt, Nisarg Shah, Michael Wellman, Paolo Bova, Theodor Cimpeanu, Carson Ezell, Quentin Feuillade-Montixi, Matija Franklin, Esben Kran, Igor Krawczuk, Max Lamparth, Niklas Lauffer, Alexander Meinke, Sumeet Motwani, Anka Reuel, Vincent Conitzer, Michael Dennis, Iason Gabriel, Adam Gleave, Gillian Hadfield, Nika Haghtalab, Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Sébastien Krier, Kate Larson, Joel Lehman, David Parkes, Georgios Piliouras, and Iyad Rahwan. 2025. "Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI". https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14143.
Lewis Hammond, Alan Chan, Jesse Clifton, Jason Hoelscher-Obermaier, Akbir Khan, Euan McLean, Chandler Smith, Wolfram Barfuss, Jakob Foerster, Tomáš Gavenčiak, The Han, Edward Hughes, Vojtěch Kovařík, Jan Kulveit, Joel Leibo, Caspar Oesterheld, Christian de Witt, Nisarg Shah, Michael Wellman, Paolo Bova, Theodor Cimpeanu, Carson Ezell, Quentin Feuillade-Montixi, Matija Franklin, Esben Kran, Igor Krawczuk, Max Lamparth, Niklas Lauffer, Alexander Meinke, Sumeet Motwani, Anka Reuel, Vincent Conitzer, Michael Dennis, Iason Gabriel, Adam Gleave, Gillian Hadfield, Nika Haghtalab, Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Sébastien Krier, Kate Larson, Joel Lehman, David Parkes, Georgios Piliouras, and Iyad Rahwan. 2025. "Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI". https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14143.
David Huang, Francisco Marmolejo-Cossío, Edwin Lock, and David Parkes. 2025. "https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14625">Accelerated Preference Elicitation With LLM-Based Proxies". doi:CoRR abs/2501.14625.
David Huang, Francisco Marmolejo-Cossío, Edwin Lock, and David Parkes. 2025. "https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14625">Accelerated Preference Elicitation With LLM-Based Proxies". doi:CoRR abs/2501.14625.
Ermis Soumalias, Yanchen Jiang, Kehang Zhu, Michael Curry, Sven Seuken, and David Parkes. 2025. "https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10308">LLM-Powered Preference Elicitation in Combinatorial Assignment". doi:CoRR abs/2502.10308.
Ermis Soumalias, Yanchen Jiang, Kehang Zhu, Michael Curry, Sven Seuken, and David Parkes. 2025. "https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10308">LLM-Powered Preference Elicitation in Combinatorial Assignment". doi:CoRR abs/2502.10308.
Barton E. Lee, Daniel J. Moroz, and David C. Parkes. "An Analysis of Blockchain Governance via Political Economics". 2021.
Barton E. Lee, Daniel J. Moroz, and David C. Parkes. "An Analysis of Blockchain Governance via Political Economics". 2021.
Daniel J. Moroz, Daniel J. Aronoff, Neha Narula, and David C. Parkes. "Double-Spend Counterattacks: Threat of Retaliation in Proof-of-Work Systems". CoRR Abs 2002.10736.
Daniel J. Moroz, Daniel J. Aronoff, Neha Narula, and David C. Parkes. "Double-Spend Counterattacks: Threat of Retaliation in Proof-of-Work Systems". CoRR Abs 2002.10736.
