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Research Area: Econ and Social Sys |
Profile
Sharad Goel is part of the Social Dynamics group in New York. He received his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University in 2005, and held positions as a research fellow in the math departments of Stanford University and the University of Southern California before joining Yahoo! Research. He is currently working on problems in computational sociology, microeconomics and machine learning.
Recent Publications, Projects and News
- Pricing Combinatorial Markets for Tournaments Yiling Chen; Sharad Goel; David Pennock, 40th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2008), 2008
- Horseshoes in Multidimensional Scaling and Kernel Methods Persi Diaconis; Sharad Goel; Susan Holmes, Annals of Applied Statistics, 2008
- Analysis of Top to Bottom-k Shuffles Sharad Goel, Annals of Applied Probability, 2006, 1
- Mixing Time Bounds via the Spectral Profile Sharad Goel; Ravi Montenegro; Prasad Tetali, Electronic Journal of Probability, 2006
- Modified Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities for Some Models of Random Walk Sharad Goel, Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, 2004