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David Parkes is a British American computer scientist, leading research at the interface between computer science and economics, with a focus on multi-agent systems, artificial intelligence, game theory and market design.

He is the George F. Colony Professor of Computer Science and Co Faculty Director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative. From 2013-17, Parkes was Area Dean for Computer Science.

Parkes is Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Parkes has degrees from the University of Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania.

Education and professional career
Parkes born in 1973 in Sidcup, Kent attended Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School in Cheshire then Lincoln College Oxford for an M.Eng. degree in Engineering and Computer Science. Having gained the Thouron Award to the University of Pennsylvania, he completed a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science in 2001.

Parkes had worked as a research intern at the Xerox PARC, Palo Alto Research Center for summer 1997 and the IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center in the summer of 2000. In the spring of 2001 Parkes was lecturer of Operations and Information Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Parkes took an Assistant Professor of Computer Science position at Harvard, 2001. He was awarded the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Natural Sciences in 2005, with tenure as a Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science in 2008. He was later renamed the George F. Colony Professor of Computer Science, and also a Harvard College Professor in recognition of his exceptional teaching, 2012.

From September 2008 to January 2009 Parkes was a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

For Lent and Easter terms 2012 he was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Christs College, Cambridge University.

He was appointed Harvard Area Dean for Computer Science (2013-17) which involved planning for the expansion of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences into Allston.

He is Co-Director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative 2017 and currently Co-Chair of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Data Science Masters, and Co-Chair of the Harvard Business Analytics Program.

Academic research
Parkes founded the EconCS research group within Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Known for his work on incentive engineering for computational systems, early research contributed to the design of combinatorial auctions, procedures for selling complex packages of goods. .

Parkes has pioneered work on decentralized mechanism design as well as mechanism design in dynamic environments, where resources, participants, and information local to participants vary over time to embrace the real-world uncertainty.

Parkes has demonstrated how to use machine learning for optimal economic design.

A measure of the extent of his academic research is seen in his CV/Resume of 2019 with 134 refereed conference papers and 37 journal articles that he authored or co-authored; and 16 patents concerning the security of data, contract execution and combinatorial exchanges. Of his published papers, the three most cited are: 'Iterative combinatorial auctions', D. C. Parkes, 2006; Combinatorial Auctions, Chapter 2 edited by P. Cramton, Y. Shoham, R. Steinberg; MIT Press 'Secure data interchange'; F.S.M. Herz, W.P. Labys, D.C. Parkes, S. Kannan, J.M. Eisner, 2009; US Patent App. 12/417,747 'Iterative combinatorial actions: Theory and practice'; D.C. Parkes, L.H. Ungar, 2000; In Proc. 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI'00 /IAAI 7481

Parkes has advised or co-advised twelve Thomas T. Hoopes Prize winning senior theses and one Fay Prize winning senior thesis.

Parkes served as technical Advisor to CombineNet, Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA), 2001-2010, scientific Advisor to Nanigans, Inc. (Boston, MA), 2011-2017, and since 2014 has served as Acting Chief Scientist, Nift networks, Inc. (Boston, MA).

He serves on several international scientific advisory boards. As Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 2019. Council Member for the Computing Community Consortium of the Computing Research Association, since 2018. Chair of ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce, 2011-2015.

He is also currently Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, since 2011; INFORMS Journal on Computing, since 2009; and Journal of Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems, since 2007.

Major Awards

 * Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow, 2018
 * ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award, 2017
 * Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fellow, 2014
 * Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2005-2007
 * NSF Early Career Development Award, 2003-2008
 * Thouron Award, 1995

Named Lectures

 * Distinguished Israel Pollak Lecturer, Technion University, 2017-18
 * William Mong Distinguished Lecturer, Engineering faculty, University of Hong Kong, 2016
 * Lady Margaret Lecture, Christ’s College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, 2012

Teaching and Administration

 * Named one of Harvard's Favorite Professors: Class of 2010, Class of 2018
 * SEAS Faculty Collaboration Award 2017
 * Member, Provost's Academic Leadership Forum, Harvard University, 2016-17
 * Harvard SEAS Capers McDonald Award for Mentoring, 2011-12
 * Harvard FAS Roslyn Abramson Award for Teaching, Spring 2008