Rate My Professor Wesley Holliday

Holliday's research specializes in logic and social choice theory. In logic, his interests encompass modal and nonclassical logic, logic and natural language, logic and probability, and logic and computation. In social choice theory, he focuses on voting theory, computational social choice, and applications to AI ethics and safety. His major awards and honors include the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize from the Association for Logic, Language, and Information in 2013, the Regents’ Junior Faculty Fellowship from UC Berkeley in 2016, the Humanities Research Fellowship from UC Berkeley in 2015, and the ARIA Safeguarded AI grant in 2025 for "Aggregating Safety Preferences for AI Systems: A Social Choice Approach." Key publications include "Split Cycle: A New Condorcet Consistent Voting Method Independent of Clones and Immune to Spoilers" with Eric Pacuit (Public Choice, 2023), "Stable Voting" with Eric Pacuit (Constitutional Political Economy, 2023), "The Orthologic of Epistemic Modals" with Matthew Mandelkern (Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2024), "An extension of May’s Theorem to three alternatives: axiomatizing Minimax voting" with Eric Pacuit (Social Choice and Welfare, 2025), and "Social Choice Should Guide AI Alignment in Dealing with Diverse Human Feedback" with multiple co-authors (Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning, 2024).