Piotr Skowron

Piotr Skowron is an Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw, specialising in computational social choice and algorithmic fairness. His research is centered on fair representation, with notable contributions to the theory of committee elections and participatory budgeting. Skowron received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Warsaw in 2015, with a dissertation that was recognized by the IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. He did his post-docs at the University of Oxford and Technische Universität Berlin. For his contributions to the theory of committee elections he received the prestigious IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in 2020 and the Social Choice and Welfare Prize in 2024. Among his practical contributions is the development of the Method of Equal Shares, a proportional election method used in participatory budgeting in several European cities.