David Pennock

David Pennock is Director of DIMACS and Professor in the Computer Science Department at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He designs markets that combine human and artificial intelligence. He seeks designs with a strong game-theoretic grounding, a significant data-driven component, and a promise of practical deployment to improve society or create a new business. He initiated the fields of combinatorial prediction markets and truthful wagering mechanisms. In addition, he was an early innovator in recommender systems, web analysis, and sponsored search. Three of his papers have won Test of Time awards or mentions in the fields of information retrieval, opinion extraction, and search advertising.

Pennock’s Ph.D. is in artificial intelligence and he has been an intellectual and organizational leader in the economics and computation subfield of AI for almost two decades. Over that time, he has co-founded two research areas, three workshops, and an ACM journal, and was a founding member of three corporate basic-research labs. He led Microsoft Research NYC as Assistant Managing Director for six years. He was Co-Editor and Co-Founder of the main journal in his field and was Program Co-Chair and General Chair of the main conference in his field. He has over 100 publications with 17,000 citations and an h-index of 52. He has over twenty patent applications, over twenty press mentions, and has given more than fifty talks.