Gerrymandering

Brian Brubach, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Wellesley College, joins us today to discuss his work “Meddling Metrics: the Effects of Measuring and Constraining Partisan Gerrymandering on Voter Incentives”.

Guest

Brian Brubach: I’m an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Wellesley College. My research is on algorithms and theory with applications in e-commerce, fairness in machine learning, democratic systems, mechanism design for social good, and bioinformatics. I did my PhD in computer science at the University of Maryland, College Park with co-advisors Aravind Srinivasan and Mihai Pop. My broad research interests are summarized below with more detailed information on my research page.