David Pennock Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences, USA

David M. Pennock is Director of the DIMACS Center and Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University. Pennock’s research in artificial intelligence is focused on designing intelligent markets to crowdsource forecasts and improve decision making, often combining human and machine intelligence. Pennock is a leader in the economics and computation area of artificial intelligence, serving as Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on the topic and co-founding and co-editing the journal ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation. He helped to initiate the fields of combinatorial prediction markets and truthful wagering mechanisms. Three of his over one hundred publications have won Test of Time awards. Prior to Rutgers, Pennock co-founded and worked as Assistant Director of Microsoft Research New York City. Pennock earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a Graduate Certificate in Complex Systems from the University of Michigan. His undergraduate degree from Duke University is in Physics. Website: http://dpennock.com/