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• 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.

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• 19 Dec. 2024. Two papers were accepted for publication at AAMAS '25.

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• 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.
• 13 Jan. 2026. Happy to share that our paper Social Deliberation: Democratic Deliberation Through Unbiased Social Interactions was accepted for publication at WWW '26.

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• 10 Sep. 2026. Our paper “Nash Equilibria in Auctions with Pacing Strategies: Complexity and Inefficiency,” with Aris Filos-Ratsikas and Charalampos Kokkalis, has been accepted at WINE ’26.

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• 29 Sep. 2026. Two journal acceptances: Optimal Metric Distortion for Matching on the Line has been accepted for publication in Artificial Intelligence, and Computational Aspects of Distortion has been accepted for publication in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Earlier versions appeared at IJCAI ’25 and AAMAS ’24, respectively.

publications

• Rent Division Among Groups Video

  By Mohammad Ghodsi, Mohamad Latifian, Arman Mohammadi, Sadra Moradian, and Masoud Seddighin
  In COCOA '18: Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications.
  
  
• On the Distortion Value of the Elections with Abstention Paper

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

  By George Christodoulou, Vasilis Gkatzelis, Mohamad Latifian, and Alkmini Sgouritsa
  In EC '20: Proc. of the 21st ACM Conference on Economics and Computation.
  
  
• On the Distortion Value of Elections with Abstention Paper

  By Mohammad Ghodsi, Mohamad Latifian, and Masoud Seddighin
  In JAIR: Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.
  
  
• Almost Envy-freeness, Envy-rank, and Nash Social Welfare Matchings Paper

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

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

  By Anson Khang, Mohamad Latifian, and Nisarg Shah
  In AAAI '23: Proc. of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Explainable and Efficient Randomized Voting Rules

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

  By Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Soroush Ebadian, Mohamad Latifian, and Nisarg Shah
  In AAMAS '24: Proc. of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.
  
  
• The Distortion of Threshold Approval Matching Paper

  By Mohamad Latifian, and Alexandros Voudouris
  In IJCAI '24: Proc. of the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
  
  
• Public Spirited Participatory Budgeting Paper

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

  By Siddharth Barman, Soroush Ebadian, Mohamad Latifian, and Nisarg Shah
  In AAAI '25: Proc. of the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
  
  
• 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 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
  
  
• The Distortion of Threshold Approval Matching Paper

  By Mohamad Latifian, and Alexandros Voudouris
  In JAAMAS: Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.
  
  
• Metric Distortion with Preference Intensities Paper

  By Mehrad Abbaszadeh, Ali Ansarifar, Mohamad Latifian, and Masoud Seddighin
  In AAAI '26: Proc. of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
  
  
• Social Deliberation: Democratic Deliberation Through Unbiased Social Interactions Paper

  By Dana Afazeli, Mohamad Latifian, and Masoud Seddighin
  In WWW '26: Proc. of the ACM Web Conference 2026.
  
  
• Nash Equilibria in Auctions with Pacing Strategies: Complexity and Inefficiency Paper

  By Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Charalampos Kokkalis, and Mohamad Latifian
  In WINE '26: Proc. of the 22nd Conference on Web and Internet Economics (Forthcoming).
  
  
• Computational Aspects of Distortion Paper

  By Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Soroush Ebadian, Mohamad Latifian, and Nisarg Shah
  In JAAMAS: Forthcoming in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.
  
  
• Optimal Metric Distortion for Matching on the Line Paper

  By Aris Filos-Ratsikas, Vasilis Gkatzelis, Mohamad Latifian, Emma Rewinski, and Alexandros Voudouris
  In AIJ: Artificial Intelligence (Forthcoming).