Summary
Nicholas Mattei is an associate professor of computer science at Tulane University with 11 years of experience bridging AI theory and real-world decision-making systems. His research spans algorithms, computational social choice, preference reasoning, and decision-making under uncertainty, and he combines theory, data, and experiments to create practical mechanisms for both individual and group decisions. He co-founded and maintains PrefLib, a widely used library for preference data that supports work across the social choice community, and previously led research at IBM Research AI and CSIRO/Data61. Nicholas brings an unusual blend of academic rigor and hands-on engineering from earlier work designing flight software and hardware for NASA nanosatellites, and he remains an active collaborator as an adjunct at UNSW.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Kentucky