Fall 2020
The EconCS Group holds an Economics and Computer Science research seminar each semester.
Fall 2020 meetings are held at 10-11:30am on Fridays. Seminar Coordinators for Fall '20 are Mark York and Anson Kang
| September 18 | Anson Kang
| District-Fair Participatory Budgeting | ||
| September 25 | Chara Podimata | Learning Strategy-Aware Linear Classifiers | ||
| October 2 | 1. Zhe Feng, 2. Daniel Halpern | 1. The Intrinsic Robustness of Stochastic Bandits to Strategic Manipulation 2. Resolving the Optimal Metric Distortion Conjecture | ||
| October 16 | 1. Elizabeth Bondi 2. Kai Wang | 1. Micronutrient Deficiency Prediction for Optimizing Interventions 2. Automatically Learning Compact Quality-aware Surrogates for Optimization Problems | ||
| October 23 |
| 1. Truthful Data Acquisition via Peer Prediction 2. Joint Pricing and Matching for City-Scale Ride-Pooling | ||
| October 30 | 1. Matthias Gerstgrasser, 2. Mark York | 1. Reverse Auctions are Different from Auctions (…and much stranger) 2. Scoring Rules for Creditworthiness Information Elicitation | ||
| November 6 | 1. Gianluca Brero, 2. Tao Lin | 1. Reinforcement Learning of Simple Indirect Mechanisms 2. A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the Empirical Revenue Maximization Algorithm with Endogenous Sampling | ||
| November 20 | 1. Fang-Yi Yu, 2. Arpita Biswas | 1. Learning and Strongly Truthful Multi-Task Peer Prediction: A Variational Approach 2. Fair Allocation of Structured Set Systems | ||
| December 11 | 1. Tomer Ezra, 2. Juba Ziani | 1. Prophet and secretary matching under vertex arrival 2. Pipeline Interventions | ||