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I am a third year Ph.D Candidate in the Artificial Intelligence Research Group of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, advised by Barbara J. Grosz. My research focuses on the interaction between collaborative group of people and computer agents, investigating the factors that influence people’s perception of interruptions, and based on this understanding, designing multi-agent decision making models that can better manage interruptions. I am the recipient of Microsoft Research Fellowship (2008) and Robert L. Wallace Prize Fellowship (2007). In 2007 summer, I worked at Microsoft Research as an intern under the mentorship of Eric Horvitz.  I did my undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences of Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey. Publications Ece Kamar, Eric Horvitz and Chris Meek. Mobile Opportunistic Commerce: Mechanisms, Architecture, and Application. In Proceedings of AAMAS 2008. To Appear. Ece Kamar, Barbara J. Grosz and David Sarne. Modeling User Perception of Interaction Opportunities in Collaborative Human-Computer Settings. In Proceedings of AAAI 2007, Student Abstract and Poster Program Ece Kamar and Barbara J. Grosz. Applying MDP Approaches For Estimating Outcome of Interaction in Collaborative Human-Computer Settings. In Proceedings of Workshop on Multi-agent Sequential Decision Making in Uncertain Domains (MSDM) 2007. Contact Information Maxwell Dworkin, Room 217 33 Oxford St Cambridge MA 02138 E-mail: kamar at eecs.harvard.edu