About me

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University of Warsaw
Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics
ul. Banacha 2, 02-097 Warszawa, Poland
Room: 1550

email: p.skowron@mimuw.edu.pl

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I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw. I am especially interested in (computational) social choice, in particular in committee elections and participatory budgeting. I was awarded the 2020 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in recognition of my contributions to computational social choice and the theory of committee elections. I have coauthored a book on this fascinating topic.

I am one of the authors of the Method of Equal Shares, which is a proportional election method dedicated for participatory budgeting. I believe this is by far the best currently known voting method for participatory budgeting, and a few cities already use it in their elections (e.g., Wieliczka, Poland; Aarau, Switzerland). It is also recommended by the Poland’s Regional Chamber of Accounting.

I am interested in linking various ideas from (cooperative) game theory, fair allocation, approximation algorithms and computational social choice.

You can jump directly to the sections describing my awards, a brief version of my curriculum vitae, and my academic service.

Awards

2023: I got an ERC Starting Grant for the project PRO-DEMOCRATIC.
2021: I won Best Senior Program Committee Member Award at AAMAS-2020.
2020: I won 2020 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award!
2018: My paper (coauthored with Martin Lackner) Consistent Approval-Based Multi-Winner Rules was shortlisted for the best paper award at EC-2018.
2018: I got the scholarship for young researchers of Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
2017: I got the Humboldt Research Fellowships for Postdoctoral Researchers.
2015: My PhD dissertation won the runner-up of the 2015 IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award!

Short bio

A very brief version of my curriculum vitae:

2022: Habilitation in science (in the discipline of computer science).
since 2018: Assistant Professor at Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw Warsaw, Poland.
2017–2018: PostDoc at TU Berlin: I was a Humboldtian!
2016–2017: PostDoc at University of Oxford.
2014–2016: Software engineer at Google Inc..
2010–2015: PhD in Computer Science (distinguished thesis) from Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw Warsaw, Poland. Adivsors: Prof. Piotr Faliszewski and Prof. Krzysztof Rzadca.
2004–2009: MSc in Computer Science from Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw Warsaw, Poland. Adivsor: Dr Marek Biskup.
2004–2009: BSc in Mathematics from Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw Warsaw, Poland.

Academic service

I am actively reviewing for various conferences and journals:

Editorial Board:
Artificial Intelligence (since 2023).
Area Chair (AC):
IJCAI-2022.
Senior Program Committee Member (SPC):
AAAI-2021, IJCAI-2021, AAMAS-2021, AAAI-2020, AAMAS-2020, ECAI-2020.
Program Committee Member (PC):
ACM EC-2022, SAGT-2022, ACM EC-2021, Wine-2021, EUMAS-2021, ACM EC-2020, ACM EC-2019, IJCAI-2019, AAMAS-2019, AAAI-2019, ACM EC-2018, IJCAI-2018, AAAI-2018, IJCAI-2017, AAAI-2017, AAMAS-2017, ADT-2017, AAAI-2016, ECAI-2016, IJCAI-2016, IJCAI-2015, AAMAS-2015, AAAI-2015, AAAI-2014.
Reviewing for journals:
Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Artificial Intelligence, ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Parallel Computing, RAIRO-ITA, Social Choice and Welfare, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Theoretical Computer Science, Theory of Computing Systems, Future Generation Computer Systems, IEEE Intelligent Systems, Algorithmica, Mathematical Social Sciences.