David C. Parkes is the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University where he teaches classes in artificial intelligence, optimization, and multi-agent systems. He received his PhD degree in computer and information science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001, and a master's in engineering and computing science from Oxford University in 1995. He was awarded the NSF Career Award in 2002, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 2005, and the Roslyn Abramson Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2008. Parkes is an editor of Games and Economic Behavior, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, and the INFORMS Journal of Computing. Parkes was the co-program chair of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce in 2007 and the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems in 2008. Parkes chairs the steering committee of the workshop on the economics of networks, systems and computation and will serve as the general chair of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce in 2010.