Eric Pacuit

Professor of Philosophy, University of Maryland

Eric Pacuit is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Maryland and an affiliate of Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute of Maryland (AIM). He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the City University of New York Graduate Center and previously held postdoctoral positions at Stanford University—in the Departments of Philosophy and Computer Science—and at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam.

Eric's research primarily focuses on logic, voting theory, and game theory. His work on voting has been published in the journals Social Choice and Welfare, Public Choice, Journal of Theoretical Politics, and Constitutional Political Economy, as well as in conference proceedings such as AAAI and TARK. Together with Wes Holliday, he developed pref_voting (https://pref-voting.readthedocs.io/), an open-source Python package for analyzing voting methods. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and a Vidi grant from the Dutch science foundation (NWO).