Yair Zick

Yair Zick is currently working on a variety of topics at the intersection of game theory, fair division, and AI. His core interests are in computational aspects of game theory and fair division. Currently, he works on the fair allocation of indivisible resources, with a particular focus on justice criteria such as envy-freeness, stability, and diversity. He is also interested in making machine learning models more trustworthy by ensuring that we can explain their decisions in a reasonable manner, while preserving other criteria such as fairness and privacy. Finally, he is interested in applying machine learning concepts to game theory, in particular to how learning-theoretic concepts can be applied to obtain data-driven solutions to problems in game theory and economics.

Zick is an assistant professor in the Manning College of Information Systems and Computer Sciences (CICS). Prior to that, he was an assistant professor at the NUS School of Computing. He obtained his PhD (mathematics) from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2014, and a BSc (mathematics, "Amirim" honors program) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

In 2020, Zick received the AAAI Outstanding Senior Program Committee Member Award, and in 2019 a NUS Faculty of Law TRAIL fellowship. He also received a Singapore NRF fellowship, the 2016 ACM EC Best Paper award, 2014 Victor Lesser IFAAMAS Distinguished Dissertation award, and the 2011 AAMAS Best Student Paper award.