2026 David C. Parkes: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	75	1414	1371	734	708	385	23133

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - ACM Fellow For contributions to computational markets, including novel mechanism design and incentive engineering methods
2014 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For significant contributions to multi-agent systems research through advances in auctions and mechanism design and development of the CS-economics research community.
2005 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

David C. Parkes is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains including Management Science and Operations Research, Artificial Intelligence, Economics and Econometrics, Marketing, and Safety Research. Their work notably addresses topics such as Auction Theory and Applications, Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing, Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Game Theory and Applications, Digital Platforms and Economics, and Game Theory and Voting Systems.

Key recent publications include:

Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030: The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
Optimal auctions through deep learning, 2021, Communications of the ACM
The AI Economist: Taxation policy design via two-level deep multiagent reinforcement learning, 2022, Science Advances
AI can help humans find common ground in democratic deliberation, 2024, Science
Too Many Cooks: Bayesian Inference for Coordinating Multi-Agent Collaboration, 2021, Topics in Cognitive Science

They frequently publish in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Harvard Data Science Review
SSRN Electronic Journal
Communications of the ACM

David C. Parkes collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including:

Stephan Zheng
Sai Srivatsa Ravindranath
Daniel J. Moroz
Paul Dütting
Alexander Trott

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow by multiple organizations, reflecting their involvement in computational markets and multi-agent systems research. Awards include:

ACM Fellow (2018) for contributions to computational markets including novel mechanism design and incentive engineering methods
Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (2014) for significant contributions to multi-agent systems research and development of the CS-economics research community
Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2005)

Best Publications

Secure data interchange

Frederick S. M. Herz;Walter Paul Labys;David C. Parkes;Sampath Kannan

2487
Citations
Iterative Combinatorial Auctions

David C. Parkes

1610
Citations
Location enhanced information delivery system

Frederick Herz;Jonathan M. Smith;David C. Parkes

1398
Citations
Iterative Combinatorial Auctions: Theory and Practice

David C. Parkes;Lyle H. Ungar

514
Citations
Iterative combinatorial auctions: achieving economic and computational efficiency

David Christopher Parkes;Lyle H. Ungar

461
Citations
Computational-mechanism design: a call to arms

R.K. Dash;N.R. Jennings;D.C. Parkes

455
Citations
Artificial intelligence and life in 2030: the one hundred year study on artificial intelligence

Peter Stone;Rodney Brooks;Erik Brynjolfsson;Ryan Calo

394
Citations
Rationality and Self-Interest in Peer to Peer Networks

Jeffrey Shneidman;David C. Parkes

350
Citations
Achieving budget-balance with Vickrey-based payment schemes in exchanges

David C. Parkes;Jayant Kalagnanam;Marta Eso

346
Citations
iBundle: an efficient ascending price bundle auction

David C. Parkes

304
Citations
Truth, justice, and cake cutting

Yiling Chen;John K. Lai;David C. Parkes;Ariel D. Procaccia

281
Citations
Economic reasoning and artificial intelligence

David C. Parkes;Michael P. Wellman

258
Citations
Adaptive limited-supply online auctions

Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi;Robert Kleinberg;David C. Parkes

253
Citations
Beyond dominant resource fairness: extensions, limitations, and indivisibilities

David C. Parkes;Ariel D. Procaccia;Nisarg Shah

243
Citations
Mirage: a microeconomic resource allocation system for sensornet testbeds

B.N. Chun;P. Buonadonna;A. AuYoung;Chaki Ng

237
Citations
Decentralized, adaptive resource allocation for sensor networks

Geoffrey Mainland;David C. Parkes;Matt Welsh

233
Citations
The price of selfish behavior in bilateral network formation

Jacomo Corbo;David Parkes

232
Citations
On non-cooperative location privacy: a game-theoretic analysis

Julien Freudiger;Mohammad Hossein Manshaei;Jean-Pierre Hubaux;David C. Parkes

230
Citations
An MDP-Based Approach to Online Mechanism Design

David C Parkes;Satinder P. Singh

215
Citations
Human computation tasks with global constraints

Haoqi Zhang;Edith Law;Rob Miller;Krzysztof Gajos

209
Citations
Online auctions with re-usable goods

Mohammad T. Hajiaghayi

194
Citations
Pricing WiFi at Starbucks: issues in online mechanism design

Eric J. Friedman;David C. Parkes

192
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Tuomas Sandholm Carnegie Mellon University

Yiling Chen Harvard University

James Zou Stanford University

Lirong Xia Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Margo Seltzer University of British Columbia

Subhash Suri University of California, Santa Barbara

Eric Horvitz Microsoft (United States)

Craig Boutilier Google (United States)

Ariel D. Procaccia Harvard University

Vincent Conitzer Carnegie Mellon University

External Links

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