Gabriele Farina
X-Window Consortium Professor; Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Who they work with
Gabriele Farina is an assistant professor and the X-Window Consortium Professor at MIT in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), additionally affiliated with the Operations Research Center (ORC). He is interested in solid theoretical and algorithmic foundations for learning and computational decision-making under imperfect information, combining elements from game theory together with modern tools from machine learning, optimization, and statistics.
Prior to joining MIT, Farina spent a year as a research scientist at FAIR (Meta AI), working on Cicero, a human-level AI agent combining strategic reasoning and natural language. He holds a PhD from the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University.
Selected Publications
- Zhang, B. H., Anagnostides, I., Tewolde, E., Berker, R. E., Farina, G., Conitzer, V., & Sandholm, T. (2025). Expected variational inequalities. Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning.
- Jacob, A., Farina, G., & Andreas, J. (2024). Regularized Conventions: Equilibrium computation as a model of pragmatic reasoning. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Vol. 1: Long Papers), 2944–2955. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Jacob, A. P., Shen, Y., Farina, G., & Andreas, J. (2024). The consensus game: Language model generation via equilibrium Search. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
Media
- December 13, 2024: MIT News, MIT affiliates named 2024 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows
- November 14, 2024: MIT News, School of Engineering faculty receive awards in summer 2024
- May 14, 2024: MIT News, Using ideas from game theory to improve the reliability of language models