Jérôme Lang winner of the Humboldt research prize
Jérôme Lang was one of the of the 2021 award winners of the Humboldt Research Award. Every year, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants up to 100 such awards to internationally leading researchers of all disciplines from abroad in recognition of their academic record to date. The award comes with an amount for the researcher to work in one or several German universities for 12 months.
Jérôme Lang is a CNRS senior researcher, affiliated with Laboratoire d'analyse et modélisation de systèmes pour l'aide à la décision (LAMSADE - CNRS/Université Paris Dauphine - PSL). He is a specialist of computational social choice, a relatively new research field that lies at the crossing point of Artificial Intelligence and economics (especially social choice and game theory), and that focuses on computational tools for collective decision making, including various forms of voting, fair division of resources or tasks, and preference-based matching. The award will allow him to stay for several research stays during the next four years, both in the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and in the Technische Universität Berlin, so as to strengthen collaborations that were initiated several years ago. The research he intends to develop with his German colleagues will bear on the formation of stable groups (for instance, work teams) taking the participants' preferences into account, as well as fairness and proportionality issues in direct democracy contexts, in particular participatory budgeting.