Thank you, Jason! I'm very grateful for the recognition from the SIGecom Dissertation Award committee. Congratulations as well to my two friends who shared this honor! 🥳

🏅 Runners-up: - Xizhi Tan (Drexel), advised by @gkatzelis.bsky.social, for: "Learning-augmented mechanism design" - @yifanwu.bsky.social (Northwestern), advised by @jasonhartline.bsky.social, for: "Trustworthy AI: Foundations from Proper Scoring Rules"

Feeling good being a doctor 🙂

Congratulations to Dr. @yifanwu.bsky.social for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation! "Trustworthy AI: Foundations from Proper Scoring Rules" Thanks to her committee: @jessicahullman.bsky.social, Bobby Kleinberg, and Annie Liang.

Congratulations to students @yifanwu.bsky.social (Northwestern) and Yunran Yang (SJTU) for winning a best paper award at FORC 2025 for "Smoothed Calibration and Decision Making".

PhD student applications are open (until Dec 8) for the: "MCGT Winter School on Data Economics" It is Jan 20-24, 2025, at the Moroccan Center for Game Theory in Rabat. Topics: ML in Econ, Elicitation, Peer Prediction, Data Econ for ML, Differential Privacy. mcgt.um6p.ma/en/seminars-...

If you were hoping to spend your Friday reading about calibration on social media, I have just the thing for you! On multicalibration, omniprediction, how they relate statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/11/15/c... Got too long to discuss practical questions as much as I'd like, so that's next.

This year’s SIGecom job market candidate profiles are now available. Please share the following link with anyone you think may be interested in hiring from our community in either postdoctoral or faculty positions: www.cs.drexel.edu/~vg399/SIGec...