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news

• 8 Sep. 2023. I'm going to be at Oxford University for two months, visiting Edith Elkind.
• 23 Sep. 2023. Our paper Distortion of Explainable Voting Rules was accepted for publication at NeurIPS '23.
• 21 Dec. 2023. Our paper Computational Aspects of Distortion was accepted for publication at AAMAS '24.
• 16 Apr. 2024. Happy to share that our paper The Distortion of Threshold Approval Matching was accepted for publication at IJCAI '24.
• 4 Jun. 2024. I did my public defense last week and I'm moving to Edinburgh to start as a Research Associate at the School of Informatics of the University of Edinburgh in July. Yay!
• 17 Dec. 2024. Two papers got accepted to AAAI '25.
• 19 Dec. 2024. Two papers were accepted for publication at AAMAS '25.
• 15 Nov. 2025. It has been a while since I wrote here. Our paper "Optimal Metric Distortion for Matching on the Line" appeared in IJCAI '25, "Metric Distortion with Preference Intensities" got into AAAI '26, and the journal version of "The Distortion of Threshold Approval Matching" was published in the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.

publications

• Rent Division Among Groups [ Paper | Slides | Video ]

  By Mohammad Ghodsi, Mohamad Latifian, Arman Mohammadi, Sadra Moradian, and Masoud Seddighin
  In COCOA '18: Proc. of International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications (pp. 577-591). Springer, Cham.
  
  
• On the Distortion Value of the Elections with Abstention [ Paper | Full Version | Slides ]

  By Mohammad Ghodsi, Mohamad Latifian, and Masoud Seddighin
  In AAAI '19: Proc. of the 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1981-1988.
  
  
• Resource-Aware Protocols for Network Cost-Sharing Games [ Paper | Slides | Video ]

  By George Christodoulou, Vasilis Gkatzelis, Mohamad Latifian, and Alkmini Sgouritsa
  In EC '20: Proc. of the 21st ACM conference on economics and computation, pp. 81-107.
  
  
• On the Distortion Value of Elections with Abstention [ Paper ]

  By Mohammad Ghodsi, Mohamad Latifian, and Masoud Seddighin
  Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 70, pp. 567-595.
  
  
• Almost Envy-freeness, Envy-rank, and Nash Social Welfare Matchings [ Paper | Full Version ]

  By Alireza Farhadi, Mohammadtaghi Hajiaghayi, Mohamad Latifian, Masoud Seddighin, and Hadi Yami
  In AAAI '21: Proc. of the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 5355-5362.
  
  
• Distortion in Voting with Top-t Preferences [ Paper ]

  By Allan Borodin, Daniel Halpern, Mohamad Latifian, and Nisarg Shah
  In IJCAI '22: Proc. of 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 116-122
  
  
• Voting with Preference Intensities [ Paper ]

  By Anson Khang, Mohamad Latifian, and Nisarg Shah
  In AAAI '23: Proc. of 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 5697–5704, 2023
  
  
• The Distortion of Approval Voting with Runoff [ Paper ]

  By Soroush Ebadian, Mohamad Latifian, and Nisarg Shah
  In AAMAS '23: Proc. of the 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pp. 1752–1760.
  
  
• Best of Both Distortion Worlds [ Paper ]

  By Vasilis Gkatzelis, Mohamad Latifian, and Nisarg Shah
  In EC '23: Proc. of the 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, pp. 738–758.
  
  
• Explainable and Efficient Randomized Voting Rules [ Paper ]

  By Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Soroush Ebadian, Mohamad Latifian, and Nisarg Shah
  In NeurIPS '23: Proc. of 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 36.
  
  
• Computational Aspects of Distortion [ Paper ]

  By Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Soroush Ebadian, Mohamad Latifian, and Nisarg Shah
  In AAMAS '24: Proc.of the23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-AgentSystems, pp. 1–14.
  
  
• The Distortion of Threshold Approval Matching [ Paper ]

  By Mohamad Latifian, and Alexandros Voudouris
  In IJCAI '24: Proc.of the33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 2851–2859.
  
  
• Public Spirited Participatory Budgeting [ Paper ]

  By Mark Bedaywi, Bailey Flanigan, Mohamad Latifian, and Nisarg Shah
  In AAAI '25: Proc. of 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Forthcoming)
  
  
• Fair Division with Market Values [ Paper ]

  By Siddharth Barman, Soroush Ebadian, Mohamad Latifian, and Nisarg Shah
  In AAAI '25: Proc. of 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Forthcoming)
  
  
• Towards Fair and Efficient Public Transportation: A Bus Stop Model [ Paper ]

  By Martin Bullinger, Edith Elkind, and Mohamad Latifian
  In AAMAS '25: Proc. of the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
  
  
• Temporal Fair Division of Indivisible Items [ Paper ]

  By Edith Elkind, Alexander Lam, Mohamad Latifian, Tzeh Yuan Neoh, and Nicholas Teh
  In AAMAS '25: Proc. of the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
  
  
• Optimal Metric Distortion for Matching on the Line [ Paper ]

  By Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Vasilis Gkatzelis, Mohamad Latifian, Emma Rewinski, and Alexandros Voudouris
  In IJCAI '25: Proc. of the 34rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  
  
• The Distortion of Threshold Approval Matching [ Paper ]

  By Mohamad Latifian, and Alexandros Voudouris
  Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, volume 39, article 42, 2025
  
  
• Metric Distortion with Preference Intensities [ Paper ]

  By Mehrad Abbaszadeh, Ali Ansarifar, Mohamad Latifian, and Masoud Seddighin
  In AAAI '26: Proc. of 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence