Rate My Professor Ariel Procaccia

Ariel Procaccia is the Alfred and Rebecca Lin Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He joined Harvard in 2020 as the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and was appointed to his current named professorship in 2025. He is also a Visiting Researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs. Procaccia earned a B.Sc. magna cum laude in Mathematics and Computer Science in 2004 and a Ph.D. summa cum laude in Computer Science in 2009, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His doctoral dissertation received the IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. Prior to Harvard, he served as Assistant Professor, untenured Associate Professor, and tenured Associate Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University from 2011 to 2019, following postdoctoral positions at Microsoft Israel R&D Center and Harvard University.

Procaccia’s research focuses on artificial intelligence, algorithms, economics, and society, with particular emphasis on computational social choice, algorithmic game theory, and fair division. He founded the Spliddit website to provide practical fair-division tools. His honors include election as an ACM Fellow in 2025 and an AAAI Fellow in 2024, the SIGecom Mid-Career Award in 2024, the Social Choice and Welfare Prize in 2020, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018, the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in 2015, and a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2015. He has served as Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation and other journals, and as Program Committee Co-chair for the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation. Procaccia has also been named a Harvard College Professor for excellence in undergraduate teaching.