Rupert Freeman
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Education: B.Sc., University of Auckland; Ph.D., Duke University
Rupert Freeman is an Assistant Professor in the Data Analytics and Decision Sciences area. Prior to joining Darden, he received his Ph.D. in computer science from Duke University and was a postdoc at Microsoft Research in New York City. He teaches the first-year core Decision Analysis course and the Data Visualization and Analytics elective. His research focuses on eliciting and aggregating information in areas such as probabilistic forecasting, resource allocation, and voting, with a particular focus on designing systems that are both fair and robust to strategic behavior by participants.
Publications
Rupert Freeman, Jens Witkowski, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, David M. Pennock. An Equivalence Between Fair Division and Wagering Mechanisms (2023). Management Science.
Haris Aziz, Rupert Freeman, Nisarg Shah, Rohit Vaish. Best of Both Worlds: Ex Ante and Ex Post Fairness in Resource Allocation (2023). Operations Research.
Jens Witkowski, Rupert Freeman, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, David M. Pennock, Andreas Krause. Incentive-Compatible Forecasting Competitions (2022). Management Science, 69(3).
Rupert Freeman, David M. Pennock, Dominik Peters, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan. Truthful Aggregation of Budget Proposals (2021). Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 193.