Paul Goelz

Paul Goelz

Postdoctoral Researcher, Harvard University

Paul Gölz is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard. He received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Ariel Procaccia. Paul studies democratic decision-making and the fair allocation of resources, using tools from algorithms, optimization, and artificial intelligence. Algorithms developed in his work are now deployed to select citizens’ assemblies around the world and to allocate refugees for a major US resettlement agency.

Fields
computational social choice, fair division, game theory, optimization