Toby Walsh (Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor)

Fair Division in the Wild: from food banks to organ banks

Abstract

Fair division is an important problem facing society today as increasing economical, environmental, and other pressures require us to try to do more with limited resources. In this talk, I survey some recent work in the ADT group at CSE studying fair division problems derived from real world applications. In each case, this threw up some interesting theoretical problems not previously studied in the literature.

Bio

Toby Walsh is a leading researcher in Artificial Intelligence. He is a Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at UNSW, and leads the Algorithmic Decision Theory group at Data61. He has been elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, and has won the prestigious Humboldt research award as well as the NSW Premier’s Prize for Excellence in Engineering and ICT. He has previously held research positions in England, Scotland, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland and Sweden.