Andreas Haupt

Human-Centered AI Fellow

Stanford University

Andreas Haupt is a Human-Centered AI Postdoctoral Fellow jointly appointed in Stanford’s Economics and Computer Science Departments, where he is advised by Erik Brynjolfsson and Sanmi Koyejo. He studies the elicitation and aggregation of human preferences in machine learning systems, including questions of privacy, competition, and consumer protection. He develops and applies methods of microeconomic theory, structural econometrics, and reinforcement learning to these domains. He earned a Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems from MIT in February 2025 with a committee evenly split between Economics and Computer Science. Prior to that, he completed two master’s degrees at the University of Bonn—first in Mathematics (2017) and then in Economics (2018), with distinction. He has worked on competition enforcement for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, and taught high school mathematics and computer science in Germany before his Ph.D. He remains committed to education and scholarship, most recently as a co-author of an upcoming textbook on Machine Learning from Human Preferences.

280-character bio Andreas Haupt is a Human-Centered AI Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford Economics and CS. He studies human preferences in ML, drawing on economics and RL. He earned his Ph.D. at MIT and has worked with the EU and FTC. Before academia, he taught high school math and CS in Germany.
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Selected Publications

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Machine Learning from Human Preferences

S. Truong, A. Haupt, S. Koyejo

Stanford Living Textbook initiative

AI should not be an imitation game: Centaur evaluations

A. Haupt, E. Brynjolfsson

International Conference on Machine Learning (Position Paper), 2025.

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Convex Markov Games: A Framework for Creativity, Imitation, Fairness, and Safety in Multiagent Learning

I. Gemp, A. Haupt, L. Marris, S. Liu, G. Piliouras

International Conference on Machine Learning, 2025.

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Platform Preferencing and Price Competition I: Evidence from Amazon

O. Hartzell, A. Haupt

SSRN Preprint 5126918, 2025.

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The Economic Engineering of Personalized Experiences

A. Haupt

Ph.D. Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025.

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Formal Contracts Mitigate Social Dilemmas In Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

A. Haupt, P. Christoffersen, M. Damani, D. Hadfield-Menell

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 38 (2), p. 1-38, 2024.

Computing Optimal Equilibria and Mechanisms via Learning in Zero-Sum Extensive-Form Games

B. Zhang, G. Farina, I. Anagnostides, F. Cacciamani, S. McAleer, A. Haupt, A. Celli, N. Gatti, V. Conitzer, T. Sandholm

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024.

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Risk preferences of learning algorithms

A. Haupt, A. Narayanan

Games and Economic Behavior 148, p. 415-426, 2024.

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Steering no-regret learners to optimal equilibria

B.H. Zhang, G. Farina, I. Anagnostides, F. Cacciamani, S.M. McAleer, A. Haupt, A. Celli, N. Gatti, V. Conitzer, T. Sandholm

ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2023.

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Certification Design for a Competitive Market

A. Haupt, N. Immorlica, B. Lucier

ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2023.

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Understanding Multi-Homing and Switching by Platform Drivers

X. Guo, A. Haupt, H. Wang, R. Qadri, J. Zhao

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 154, 2023.

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Towards Psychologically-Grounded Dynamic Preference Models

M. Curmei, A. Haupt, B. Recht, D. Hadfield-Menell

ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2022.

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Contextually Private Mechanisms

A. Haupt, Z. Hitzig

ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2022.

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The Optimality of Upgrade Pricing

D. Bergemann, A. Bonatti, A. Haupt, A. Smolin

Web and Internet Economics, 2021.

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Multi-Agent Influence Diagrams and Commitment

A. Haupt

B.S. Thesis, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 2019.

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Voting with Restricted Communication

A. Haupt

M.S. Thesis, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 2018.

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A Data Application of Graphon Theory

A. Haupt

M.S. Thesis, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 2017.

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Die Integrality Ratio der Subtour-Relaxierung

A. Haupt

B.S. Thesis, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 2014.

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Vita

Full Resume and CV are available as pdf.