Théo Delemazure wins Dissertation Award of the French Association for AI

We are proud to announce that Théo Delemazure, postdoc in the Computational Social Choice Group at the ILLC, won the 2026 Dissertation Award of the French Association for Artificial Intelligence (AFIA) for his PhD thesis defended at Université Paris Dauphine/PSL in 2025.

Théo's thesis uses both mathematical and data-driven methods to show that making seemingly minor tweaks to how people's preferences are collected during voting in political elections can result in significant improvements regarding the fairness, representativeness, and efficiency of political decisions by better accounting for the complexities of actual voter preferences. During the first week of July, Théo presented his findings during a keynote address at the 19th French National Conference on AI (the Plate-Forme Intelligence Artificielle) in Arras, France. His thesis was earlier recognised as a runner-up for the prestigious Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.