Counting Briberies in Elections

Niclas Boehmer, second year PhD student at Berlin Institute of Technology, comes on today to discuss the computational complexity of bribery in elections through the paper “On the Robustness of Winners: Counting Briberies in Elections.” Links Mentioned: Works Mentioned: “On the Robustness of Winners: Counting Briberies in Elections.” by Niclas Boehmer, Robert Bredereck, Piotr Faliszewski. Rolf Niedermier Thanks to our sponsors: Springboard School of Data: Springboard is a comprehensive end-to-end online data career program. Create a portfolio of projects to spring your career into action.

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Niclas Boehmer: Niclas Boehmer is a second-year Ph.D. student working in the Algorithmics and Computational Complexity research group at TU Berlin. His research focuses on the algorithmic analysis of questions related to collective decision-making problems such as voting and coalition formation. He received his MA in computer science from the University of Oxford and his BA in computer science from the RWTH Aachen University.