Florin Constantin

33 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138
617.495.2081
florin at eecs.harvard.edu

I am a fourth year Ph.D. student in the EconCS Group in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University.
My academic interests include computational mechanism design and algorithmic game theory. My advisor is Prof. David C. Parkes.

Here is my resume.

Publications

Online Ad Slotting With Cancellations by Florin Constantin, Jon Feldman, S. Muthukrishnan and Martin Pál. In the Fourth Workshop on Ad Auctions, Chicago 2008.

Self-Correcting Sampling-Based Dynamic Multi-Unit Auctions by Florin Constantin and David C. Parkes.
Under preparation.

Online Auctions for Bidders with Interdependent Values by Florin Constantin, Takayuki Ito and David C. Parkes.
In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2007 (poster paper).

On Revenue-Optimal Dynamic Auctions for Bidders with Interdependent Values by Florin Constantin and David C. Parkes.
In the Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce, 2007.

More on the Power of Demand Queries in Combinatorial Auctions: Learning Atomic Languages and Handling Incentives by Sébastien Lahaie, Florin Constantin and David C. Parkes.
In the Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2005.

Preference-Based Characterizations of Truthfulness and the Limited Expressiveness of Order-Based Domains by Florin Constantin and David C. Parkes.
In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Preference Handling, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2005 (Position Paper).

Tracking a moving object with a binary sensor network by Javed Aslam, Zack Butler, Florin Constantin, Valentino Crespi, George Cybenko and Daniela Rus (my advisor at Dartmouth College).
In the Proceedings of ACM SenSys'03.

Teaching

In Fall 2005 I was a TF for CS 182:Intelligent Machines taught by Prof. David C. Parkes.

Coursework

Personal

I enjoy playing bridge (meet my very patient partner and cousin Virgil Pavlu) and soccer. Feel free to contact me if you want to learn bridge or to teach me how to play soccer.