bio
Hadi Hosseini is an Associate Professor of Informatics and Intelligent Systems and of Economics (by courtesy) at Pennsylvania State University. His research, at the intersection of AI, multiagent systems, and economics, focuses on collective decision-making, spanning AI alignment, algorithmic game theory, and computational social choice. At Penn State, he directs the FAIR Lab, serves as Associate Director of the Center for AI Foundations and Engineered Systems (CAFE), and is the Coordinator of the Data Science program. He founded two nonprofit platforms, MatchU.ai and MatchXplain.org, which bridge education and research through interactive algorithms with provable guarantees. He is President of IFAAMAS and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) and Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS), and he has held leadership roles at IJCAI, AAAI, and AAMAS. His honors include an NSF CAREER Award, Penn State's Junior Faculty Excellence in Research Award, an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship, and teaching awards.
He received his PhD from the University of Waterloo, Canada, where he also worked as an instructional developer at the Centre for Teaching Excellence. Before joining Penn State, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University and an assistant professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Hadi Hosseini is an Associate Professor of Informatics and Intelligent Systems and of Economics (by courtesy) at Penn State, and President of IFAAMAS. His research brings social choice and game theory to AI, asking how people and AI systems with conflicting preferences should decide together. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award.
Leadership
- 2026–present
PresidentInternational Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS)
- 2022–present
Board of DirectorsIFAAMAS
- Current
Associate EditorJournal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
- Current
Associate EditorAutonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS)
- Current
Associate DirectorCenter for AI Foundations and Engineered Systems (CAFE), Penn State
- 2023–2026
Organizing committeesAAAI-23, AAAI-25, AAAI-26, IJCAI-23, IJCAI-24, AAMAS-24, AAMAS-26
Career
- 2024–present
Associate ProfessorCollege of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University
- 2020–2024
Assistant ProfessorCollege of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University
- 2017–2020
Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Computer Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
- 2016–2017
Postdoctoral FellowComputer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
- 2015–2016
Adjunct InstructorCheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
- 2014–2016
Instructional DeveloperCentre for Teaching Excellence, University of Waterloo
Education
- 2016
PhD in Computer ScienceUniversity of Waterloo
- 2010
MSc in Computer Science (thesis)University of New Brunswick
Honors and Awards
- 2024
Invited speaker, Early Career SpotlightIJCAI 2024
- 2023
Junior Faculty Excellence in Research AwardCollege of IST, Penn State
- 2022
NSF CAREER AwardNational Science Foundation
- 2020, 2018
Nominated for the Outstanding Teaching Award (three times)Rochester Institute of Technology
- 2018
Best Program Committee MemberAAMAS 2018
- 2016
NSERC Postdoctoral FellowshipNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- 2016
Amit and Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional TeachingUniversity of Waterloo
- 2016
Doctoral Thesis Completion AwardUniversity of Waterloo
- 2011–2015
David R. Cheriton ScholarshipUniversity of Waterloo
- 2014
Best Poster Presentation AwardCheriton Research Symposium, University of Waterloo
- 2012
Distinguished Teaching Assistantship AwardUniversity of Waterloo
- 2009
Sasi Mohan Pal Memorial PrizeUniversity of New Brunswick
Research Funding $1.82M as PI or co-PI
National Science Foundation 5 awards
- 2022
CAREER: Robust Fairness in Matching MarketsNational Science Foundation · PI
- 2021
Collaborative Research: RI: Medium: Transparent Fair Division of Indivisible ItemsNational Science Foundation · Lead PI
- 2020
REU: Strategic Aspects of Fair and Stable Resource AllocationNational Science Foundation · PI
- 2019
IUSE: Using Program Dependence Graphs to Propagate Feedback to Students on Programming Assignments and Promote Responsive TeachingNational Science Foundation · co-PI
- 2019
CRII: RI: Fair, Efficient, and Truthful Resource Allocation in Dynamic EnvironmentsNational Science Foundation · PI
University and institute awards 11 awards
- 2026
The Intelligence Spectrum: Interrogating Ethics Across SubstratesRock Ethics Institute, Penn State · co-PI
- 2025
Generative AI Models as Social or Economic AgentsCollege of IST, Penn State · PI, with Ran Shorrer
- 2023
Democratizing Machine Learning Advances and Applications: A Framework for Collaborative Development of Foundation ModelsInstitute for Computational and Data Sciences, Penn State · co-PI
- 2022
Democratic Metaverse: Recovering Truth from Ranking DataCollege of IST, Penn State · PI
- 2021
Robust and Fair Matching Markets: From Rideshare to Kidney ExchangeCollege of IST, Penn State · PI
- 2021
Diversity and Fairness in Gig EconomiesCenter for Socially Responsible AI, Penn State · PI
- 2019
Modeling Malicious Agents in Cyber SystemsGCCIS, Rochester Institute of Technology · PI
- 2018
An Interactive Online Platform for Artificial Intelligence EducationProvost's Learning Innovation Grant, RIT · PI
- 2017
Efficiency and Truthfulness in Matching Under UncertaintyRochester Institute of Technology · PI
- 2017
Enhancing Active Learning in Computer Science Education Through GameplayProvost's Learning Innovation Grant, RIT · PI
- 2015
Enhancing Learning Through Game-Based LearningCentre for Teaching Excellence, University of Waterloo · co-PI
Outside research, I read widely across behavioral science, history, and literature. My bookshelf →