USC @ EC 2026 (Credit: Mid journey)
USC researchers will present four papers at the 2026 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC), with research exploring algorithmic fairness, computational social choice, market design and theoretical foundations at the intersection of economics and computer science.
Held July 6–10 in Rome, Italy, EC is the premier international conference on economics and computation, bringing together researchers from the crossroads of computer science, economics and related fields to advance the design and analysis of algorithms, markets and economic systems.
Faculty and students from labs across the university are attending this year’s conference, and this includes researchers from USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science and Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, USC Mark and Mary Stevens School of Computing and AI, USC Marshall School of Business and the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.
USC researchers will present work across the conference’s technical program, with computer science assistant professor Evi Micha leading two accepted papers. Micha’s research sits at the intersection of computer science, particularly artificial intelligence and theoretical computer science, and economics, with a focus on computational social choice and algorithmic fairness.
