Paul W. Goldberg

professor of Computer Science
office phone: 01865-610756
email: Paul.Goldberg “at” cs.ox.ac.uk
picture of Paul Goldberg

Recent teaching: Algorithms and Data Structures course, HT 2025; Course materials on Moodle

Research projects
Aggregating Safety Preferences for AI Systems: A Social Choice Approach, part of ARIA Safeguarded AI (Link— click on TA1.4, scroll down to project title for more details)
Link to project web page for EPSRC-funded project Optimisation for Game Theory and Machine Learning.
Link to project web page for EPSRC-funded project Driving Behaviour in Multi-winner Voting.
Link to ongoing project ‘Decentralised Arbitration’ supporting an industry co-funded DPhil student.
Link to some detail on projects and topics I’m interested in.
General topics/key phrases
• Algorithmic game theory, related topics in AI
• Computational complexity and NP total search problems
• machine learning; game-theoretic models for data
• decentralized computation of economic equilibria

Some further information (mostly in the CV above)

Publications (list maintained by me, includes some general narrative discussion)
Publications on Google scholar; DBLP; ORCID; ACM DL; arXiv
I am currently serving as editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, jointly with M. Utku Ünver. We welcome submitted articles in all areas of Algorithmic Game Theory; mainly original research but we also consider also survey and expository papers. Feel free to email me if you have questions about the journal.
MGP


I like to hear from prospective research students, and Oxford undergraduate/MSc students interested in project supervision, but I’m afraid I can’t support internships.


Slides from 2025 JECCO workshop.
Slides from TFNP workshop at STOC’25.


I recently served as director of the MSc in Mathematics and the Foundations of Computer Science (MFoCS, pronounced “em-fox”) (Link). Previously I was director of the MSc in Advanced CS (Link). I supervise MSc and undergraduate projects on a range of topics, some (but not all!) of which are described further at the link above.


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Paul Goldberg
This document last updated on 9th March 2026