Nicholas Mattei

Nicholas Mattei is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Tulane University, the Co-Director of the Tulane Center for Community Engaged AI in New Orleans, LA, USA, and an Affiliated Faculty at The Murphy Institute. His research lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and machine learning with applications in data science, economics, decision making, and psychology. His projects leverage theory, data, and experiments to create novel algorithms, mechanisms, and systems that enable and support individual and group decision making. 

Dr. Mattei has published over 100 academic articles in top conferences and journals; received multiple grants from sources including Google, IBM, and the National Science Foundation, including a 2024 NSF CAREER Award; and is a co-author of the new book Computing and Technology Ethics: Engaging Through Science Fiction from MIT Press. Before joining Tulane he was a Research Staff Member at IBM Research, TJ Watson Research Laboratory in New York, USA; a Senior Researcher at Data61/CSIRO/NICTA and Conjoint Senior Lecturer at UNSW Sydney in Australia; and before that was an aerospace technology engineer at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA, USA. He completed his PhD in 2012 at the University of Kentucky, USA.