David C. Parkes

Research and Bio
Publications
Resume (Sept. 2007)
Research statement (short)
Teaching statement

Research Group
EconCS

Background
Survey chapters
Teaching materials

Ph.D. Dissertation
Iterative Combinatorial Auctions

Current Ph.D. Students
Ruggiero Cavallo (G6)
Florin Constantin (G4)
Jacomo Corbo (G5)
Shaili Jain (G4)
co-advised w/ M.Mitzenmacher
Laura Kang (G6)
Benjamin Lubin (G3)
Chaki Ng (G7)
co-advised w/ M.Seltzer
Malvika Rao (G1)
Sven Seuken (G2)
Jeffrey Shneidman (G6)
co-advised w/ M.Seltzer
Christopher Thorpe (G4)
co-advised w/ M.Rabin
Haoqi Zhang (G1)

Science, Technology and Management
David Chen (G5)
co-advised w/ P.Coles
Jolie Martin (G5)
co-advised w/ M.Norton
Katy Milkman (G4)
co-advised w/ M.Bazerman

Former Ph.D. Students
Adam Juda
co-advised w/ P.-L.Yin
now Google, NY
Sebastien Lahaie
now Yahoo! Research, NY
Jason Woodard
co-advised w/ C.Baldwin
now SMU, Singapore

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John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences and
Associate Professor of Computer Science,
School of Engineering and Applied Science,
Harvard University

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow '05-'07

Research Interests:
Multi-agent systems, Game theory, Mechanism design, Electronic commerce, Stochastic optimization, Preference elicitation, Bounded rationality, Social computing, Supply chain coordination.

Office Hours (come talk to me!):
Regular hours: Tuesday 11am-12noon.
for AM 121: Thursday 2.30-3.30pm

Teaching:
Fall '07 CS182. Intelligent Machines: Reasoning, Actions and Plans
New Class (Spring '08) AM 121. Introduction to Optimization: Models and Methods

At Harvard:
Economics and Computer Science Research Group
Artificial Intelligence Research Group
Science, Technology and Management Program
Computer Science Colloquium Series

Tutorial given at TARK'05:
Slides: Computational mechanism design and auctions Lecture notes: working notes

Current Conferences, Workshops, Projects:
Program Co-Chair: 7th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'08)
DIMACS workshop on the Boundary between Economics and Computer Science
P2P: Bandwidth as currency Media: BBC Harvard Gazette New Scientist

Selected Recent papers and Working papers:
Efficient online mechanisms for persistent, periodically inaccessible self-interested agents.
R.Cavallo, D.C.Parkes and S.Singh. Working paper (2007).
Practical secrecy-preserving, verifiably correct and trustworthy auctions.
D.C.Parkes, M.O.Rabin, S.M.Shieber and C.Thorpe. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 2007. To appear.
Chain: A Dynamic Double Auction Framework for Matching Patient Agents.
J.Bredin, D.C.Parkes and Q.Duong.Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 30:133-179, 2007.
Ascending price Vickrey auctions for general valuations.
D.Mishra and D.C.Parkes. J. Economic Theory, 132:335-366, 2007.
Online mechanisms.D.C.Parkes.
In Algorithmic Game Theory, N.Nisan, T.Roughgarden, E.Tardos, and V.Vazirani (eds.) Chapter 16. CUP, 2007.
An ironing-based approach to adaptive online mechanism design in single-valued domains.
D.C.Parkes and Q.Duong. In Proc. 22nd Nat. Conf. on Art. Intell. (AAAI'07), 2007.
M-DPOP: Faithful distributed implementation of efficient social choice problems.
A.Petcu, B.Faltings and D.C.Parkes. Submitted to Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2007.
An options-based solution to the sequential auction problem in dynamic combinatorial auctions.
A.I.Juda and D.C.Parkes. Submitted to Artificial Intelligence Journal, 2007.
ICE: An Expressive Iterative Combinatorial Exchange.
B.Lubin, A.I.Juda, R.Cavallo, S.Lahaie, J.Sheidman and D.C.Parkes. Submitted to Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2007.
A decentralized auction framework to promote efficient resource allocation in open computational grids.
L.Kang and D.C.Parkes. In Proc. Joint Workshop on The Economics of Networked Systems and Incentive-Based Computing (NetEcon-IBC), 2007.
The Importance of Network Topology in Local Contribution Games.
J.Corbo, A.Calvo-Armengo and D.C.Parkes. In Proc. Workshop on Internet and Networks Economics (WINE), 2007 (Short paper).
An Economically Principled Generative Model of AS Graph Connectivity.
J.Corbo, S.Jain, M.Mitzenmacher, and D.C.Parkes. In Proc. Joint Workshop on The Economics of Networked Systems and Incentive-Based Computing (NetEcon-IBC), 2007.
Instantiating the contingent bids model of truthful interdependent value auctions.
T.Ito and D.C.Parkes. In 5th Int. Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pp.1151-1158, 2006.

Contact Information:
Maxwell Dworkin 229,
SEAS, Harvard University,
33 Oxford Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 384-8130 (w)
(314) 248-7899 (fax)
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