Laura Kang Ph.D. Economics and Computer Science (EconCS) Research Group School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University kang AT seas.harvard.edu Dissertation: "Open Mechanism Design: Ensuring and Verifying the Strategyproofness of Mechanisms in Open Environments" Advisor: David Parkes

Education:

B.A. Economics, Mathematics, and Computer Science
University of California at Berkeley (2002)

M.S. Computer Science
Harvard University (2004)

Ph.D. Computer Science
Harvard University (2008)

Research Interests:

Computational Mechanism Design, Game Theory, Auction Theory, Market Design, Artificial Intelligence

Publications:

• A Decentralized Auction Framework to Promote Efficient Resource Allocation in Open Computational Grids. Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on The Economics of Networked Systems and Incentive-Based Computing, NetEcon+IBC 2007. San Diego, 2007.
  

• Egg: An Extensible and Economics-inspired Open Grid Computing Platform.
  With John Brunelle, Peter Hurst, John Huth, Chaki Ng, David C. Parkes, Margo Seltzer, Jim Shank, and Saul Youssef. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models. Singapore, 2006.
  

• Passive Verification of the Strategyproofness of Mechanisms in Open Environments.
  With David Parkes. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Electronic Commerce. ACM Press, August 2006.
  

• Using Virtual Markets to Program Global Behavior in Sensor Networks.
  With Sebastien Lahaie, Geoff Mainland, David C. Parkes, and Matt Welsh. Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop. ACM Press, September 2004.
  

• Design, Implementation and Testing of Extended and Mixed Precision BLAS.
  With Xiaoye S. Li, James Demmel, David H. Bailey, Greg Henry, Yozo Hida, Jimmy Iskandar, William Kahan, Anil Kapur, Michael C. Martin, Brandon Thompson, Teresa Tung, Daniel J. Yoo. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software. 28(2): 152-205, 2002.