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Joshua is a senior data scientist at C3 AI. His research interests include computational social choice, multi-agent systems, and AI ethics. Previously, Joshua worked at the RAND Corporation. Joshua earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, under the advisement of Lirong Xia, and B.S. in data science engineering from the University of Michigan.




Ongoing work:

Identifying the Core in Transferable Utility Social Choice Games
Joshua Kavner

Fair Like Us? Auditing LLM Alignment in Resource Allocation
Samarth Khanna, Sujoy Sikdar, Joshua Kavner, Hadi Hosseini, Qishen Han
In Submission.

Bridging Theory and Perception in Fair Division:
A Study on Comparative and Fair Share Notions
Hadi Hosseini, Joshua Kavner, Samarth Khanna, Sujoy Sikdar, and Lirong Xia.
In Submission.

Average-Case Analysis of Iterative Voting
Joshua Kavner and Lirong Xia
In Submission.

Publications:

Strategic Dynamics in the Race to AGI: a Time to Race versus a Time to Restrain.
Lisa Abraham, Joshua Kavner, Alvin Moon, and Jason Matheny
In The Digitalist Papers, Vol. 2. To Appear.

Epistemic vs. Counterfactual Fairness in Allocation of Resources
Hadi Hosseini, Joshua Kavner, Sujoy Sikdar, Rohit Vaish, and Lirong Xia
In Proceedings of EAAMO'25..

Distribution of Chores with Information Asymmetry
Hadi Hosseini, Joshua Kavner, Tomasz Wąs, and Lirong Xia
In Proceedings of ECAI'24.

Convergence of Multi-Issue Iterative Voting under Uncertainty
Joshua Kavner, Reshef Meir, Francesca Rossi, and Lirong Xia
In Proceedings of IJCAI'23.

Strategic Behavior is Bliss: Iterative Voting Improves Social Welfare
Joshua Kavner and Lirong Xia
In Proceedings of NeurIPS'21.

Philosophy of Science, Network Theory, and Conceptual Change:
Paradigm Shifts as Information Cascades
Patrick Grim, Joshua Kavner, Lloyd Shatkin, and Manjari Trivedi
In Complex Systems in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Theory, Method, and Application
by Euell Elliot and J Douglas Kiel, University of Michigan Press. June, 2021.

In my free time, I dance Lindy Hop, play the piano, read, and photograph. Check out my photos below!