Computational Environment Design
[PDF, slides] new!
Haoqi Zhang
Dissertation, Harvard University, 2012.

Hallucination: a Mixed-Initiative Approach for Efficient Document Reconstruction
[PDF, slides, video]
Haoqi Zhang, John Lai, and Moritz Baecher.
In HCOMP '12, Toronto, 2012.

Human Computation Tasks with Global Constraints [PDF, slides, video]
Haoqi Zhang, Edith Law, Krzysztof Gajos, Eric Horvitz, Rob Miller, and David Parkes.
In CHI '12, Austin, 2012.
honorable mention for best paper

Task Routing for Prediction Tasks [PDF, slides]
Haoqi Zhang, Eric Horvitz, Yiling Chen, and David Parkes.
In AAMAS '12, Valencia, Spain, 2012.
Earlier version [PDF, slides] appeared at the ACM EC Workshop on social computing & user-generated content, 2011.

TurkServer: Enabling Synchronous and Longitudinal Online Experiments [PDF]
Andrew Mao, Yiling Chen, Krzysztof Gajos, David Parkes, Ariel Procaccia, and Haoqi Zhang
In HCOMP '12, Toronto, 2012.

Economics of BitTorrent Communities [PDF, slides, interview]
Ian Kash, John Lai, Haoqi Zhang, and Aviv Zohar.
In WWW '12, Lyon, France, 2012.
Earlier version [PDF, slides] appeared at the ACM EC workshop on NetEcon, 2011.


Other Publications

PlateMate: Crowdsourcing Nutrition Analysis from Food Photographs. [PDF, slides]
Jon Noronha, Eric Hysen, Haoqi Zhang, and Krzysztof Z. Gajos.
In UIST '11, Santa Barbara, 2011.

Towards Large-Scale Collaborative Planning: Answering High-Level Search Queries Using Human Computation [PDF, slides]
Edith Law and Haoqi Zhang.
In AAAI '11, San Francisco, 2011.

An Iterative Dual Pathway Structure for Speech-to-Text Transcription [PDF, slides]
Beatrice Liem, Haoqi Zhang, and Yiling Chen.
In HCOMP '11 (held at AAAI), San Francisco, 2011.

Crowdsourcing General Computation [PDF]
Haoqi Zhang, Eric Horvitz, Rob Miller, and David C. Parkes.
In the CHI 2011 workshop on crowdsourcing and human computation, 2011.
Also available as MSR technical report MSR-TR-2011-6.

Incentive Design for Adaptive Agents [PDF, slides]
Yiling Chen, Jerry Kung, David Parkes, Ariel Procaccia, and Haoqi Zhang.
In AAMAS '11, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011.

Toward Automatic Task Design: A Progress Report [PDF, slides]
Eric Huang, Haoqi Zhang, David Parkes, Krzysztof Gajos, and Yiling Chen.
In KDD-HCOMP'10, Washington, DC, 2010.

Policy Teaching Through Reward Function Learning [PDF, slides]
Haoqi Zhang, David C. Parkes, and Yiling Chen.
In the 10th ACM Electronic Commerce Conference (EC'09), Stanford, CA, 2009.

A General Approach to Environment Design with One Agent [PDF, slides]
Haoqi Zhang, Yiling Chen, and David C. Parkes.
In the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), Pasadena, CA, 2009.

Strong Activity Rules for Iterative Combinatorial Auctions [PDF]
Pavithra Harsha, Cynthia Barnhart, David C. Parkes, and Haoqi Zhang.
In Computers & Operations Research, 2009.

Value-based Policy Teaching with Active Indirect Elicitation [PDF, slides]
Haoqi Zhang and David C. Parkes.
In the 23rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'08), Chicago, IL, 2008
accepted for oral & poster presentation

Enabling Environment Design via Active Indirect Elicitation [PDF, slides]
Haoqi Zhang and David C. Parkes.
In the 4th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling, Chicago, IL, 2008.

Policy Teaching through Reward Function Learning [PDF]
Haoqi Zhang
Undergraduate thesis, Computer Science and Economics, Harvard College, 2007 (Hoopes Prize Winner).

Teaching

SEAS Teaching Consultant, 2009-present.
SEAS Departmental Teaching Fellow, 2008-2009.
Co-instructor, SEAS Teaching Practicum, Fall 2008.
Head Teaching Fellow, Introduction to Optimization, Spring 2008 and Spring 2009.
Head Teaching Fellow, Introduction to Computer Science I, Fall 2006.
Teaching Fellow, Introduction to Computer Science I, Fall 2005.
Teaching Fellow, Introduction to Computer Science II. Spring 2005 and Spring 2006.

Service

Co-organizer, the 4rd Human Computation Workshop held at AAAI (HCOMP 2012).
Co-organizer, the 3rd Human Computation Workshop held at AAAI (HCOMP 2011).
Program Committee Member, 2nd Workshop on Computational Social Science and the Wisdom of Crowds, 2011.
Program Committee Member, The Fourth North East Student Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence (NESCAI), 2010.
Student co-organizer, ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2010.
Committee member, Internal task force on student life and advising, 2009.
Reviewer, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2009.
Organizer, Professional Development Seminar Series, Spring 2009.
Organizer and presenter, Harvard Derek Bok Center Teaching Conference, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, and Fall 2009.