Piotr Skowron

• 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!

A very brief version of my curriculum vitae:

• 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.
• 2008--2012: Software developer at 9LivesData/NEC.
• 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. Adivsor: Dr Marcin Szczuka.

I did my PhD at the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics at University of Warsaw, followed by two postdocs at University of Oxford (2016--2017) and TU Berlin (2017--2018) (where I received a Humboldt Research Fellowships for Postdoctoral Researchers).

My research concerns multi-agent systems and computational social choice. I am especially interested in multiwinner elections (sometimes called committee elections). See a new survey on committee elections with approval ballots that I coauthored with Martin Lackner. If you are more interested in committee elections with ordinal ballots, see this chapter. This is also a short video in which I briefly introduce the topic of committee elections.

I am interested in linking various ideas from game theory, resource allocation, approximation algorithms and computational social choice.

My previous reserach also concerned distributed systems and particularly scheduling and load balancing algorithms for distributed systems, resource allocation and applying game theoretical solutions to distributed systems.