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Assistant Professor of Computer Science
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Maxwell Dworkin 339
33 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: firstname [AT] eecs [DOT] harvard [DOT] edu
Yiling Chen
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Maxwell Dworkin 339
33 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: firstname [AT] eecs [DOT] harvard [DOT] edu
Information for Prospective Students
I joined Harvard in 2008. Prior to this, I spent more than two years at the Microeconomic and Social Systems group of Yahoo! Research in New York City. I obtained my Ph.D. from the College of Information Sciences and Technology at The Penn State University.
I'm interested in designing and analyzing social and organizational systems according to both economic and computational objectives. My interests include prediction markets and other information aggregation mechanisms, online advertising, auction theory and mechanisms design, algorithmic game theory, peer production, multi-agent systems, and web data mining.
I'm part of the EconCS and AI research groups.
Current Ph.D. students: Xi (Alice) Gao (G2), Andrew Mao (G1) and Michael Ruberry (G1).
Current Post-doc:Jennifer Wortman Vaughan.
Fall 2008 CS286r: Topics at Interface between Computer Science and Economics (on Social Computing)
Spring 2009 AM121: Introduction to Optimization
Gaming Dynamic Parimutuel Markets
Qianya Lin, and Yiling Chen
Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE), 2009.
Betting on the Real Line
Xi (Alice) Gao, Yiling Chen, and David M. Pennock
Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE), 2009.
A Market-Based Approach to Software Evolution
David F. Bacon, Yiling Chen, David C. Parkes, and Malvika Rao
The ACM Onward! Conference, 2009
A General Approach to Environment Design with One Agent [PDF, 152k]
Haoqi Zhang, Yiling Chen, David C. Parkes
The 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Pasadena, CA, 2009.
Designing Incentives for Online Question and Answer Forums [PDF, 268k]
Shaili Jain, Yiling Chen, David C. Parkes
The 10th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), Stanford, CA, 2009.
Policy Teaching Through Reward Function Learning [PDF, 232k]
Haoqi Zhang, David C. Parkes, Yiling Chen
The 10th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), Stanford, CA, 2009.
Gaming Prediction Markets: Equilibrium Strategies with a Market Maker [PDF, 304k]
Yiling Chen, Stanko Dimitrov, Rahul Sami, Daniel M. Reeves, David M. Pennock, Robin D. Hanson, Lance Fortnow, Rica Gonen
Algorithmica, 2009.
Using Internet Searches for Influenza Surveillance [PDF, 452k]
Philip M. Polgreen, Yiling Chen, David M. Pennock, Forrest D. Nelson
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 47:1443–1448, 2008.
Sharing Online Advertising Revenue with Consumers [PDF, 156k]
Yiling Chen, Arpita Ghosh, R. Preston McAfee, and David M. Pennock
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5385, International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE), pp. 556 - 565, 2008.
A preliminary version appeared at The 4th Workshop on Ad Auctions, in conjunction with the 9th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), Chicago, IL, June 2008.
A longer version with complete proofs [PDF, 336k]
An Empirical Study of Dynamic Pari-mutuel Markets: Evidence from the Tech Buzz Game [PDF, 380k]
Yiling Chen, David M. Pennock, and Tejaswi Kasturi
The 10th
Workshop on Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis (WebKDD), in
conjunction with the 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference
on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Las Vegas, NV,
August 2008.
Yiling Chen, Lance Fortnow, Nicolas Lambert, David M. Pennock, and Jennifer Wortman
The 9th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), Chicago, IL, June 2008.
Self-Financed Wagering Mechanisms for Forecasting [PDF, 268k]
Nicolas Lambert, John Langford, Jennifer Wortman, Yiling Chen, Daniel Reeves, Yoav Shoham, and David M. Pennock
The 9th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), Chicago, IL, June 2008.
Winner of an Outstanding Paper Award at EC
A preliminary version titled "Betting with Budgets" appeared in the DIMACS Workshop on the Boundary Between Economic Theory and Computer Science, October 2007.
Pricing Combinatorial Markets for Tournaments [PDF, 520k]
Yiling Chen, Sharad Goel, and David M. Pennock
The 40th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), Victoria (BC), Canada, May 2008.
Combinatorial Betting [PDF, 124k]
Yiling Chen, Lance Fortnow, Evdokia Nikolova, and David M. Pennock
ACM SIGecom Exchanges, special issue on combinatorial auctions, vol. 7, no. 1, 2007.
Bluffing and Strategic Reticence in Prediction Markets [PDF, 146k]
Yiling Chen, Daniel M. Reeves, David M. Pennock, Robin D. Hanson, Lance Fortnow, and Rica Gonen
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4858, International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE), pp. 70 - 81, 2007.
A preliminary version appeared at The Second Workshop on Prediction Markets, in conjunction with ACM Conference of Electronic Commerce (EC), San Diego, CA, June 2007.
A longer version with complete proofs [PDF, 204k]
A Utility Framework for Bounded-Loss Market Makers [PDF, 183k]
Yiling Chen and David M. Pennock
Proc. of the 23rd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), pp. 49--56, Vancouver, BC Canada, July 2007.
A longer version with complete proofs in Appendix [PDF, 244k]
Betting on Permutations [PDF, 175k]
Yiling Chen, Lance Fortnow, Evdokia Nikolova, and David M. Pennock
Proc. of the 8th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), pp. 326--335, San Diego, CA, June 2007.
Socially Embedded Prediction Markets [PDF, 281k]
Yiling Chen and David M. Pennock
Special
Issue Workshop for Economica on: The Growth of Gambling and Prediction
Markets: Economic and Financial Implication, Palm Desert, CA,
May 2007.
Predicting Uncertain Outcomes Using Information Markets: Trader Behavior and Information Aggregation [PDF, 250k]
Yiling Chen, Chao-Hsien Chu, and Tracy Mullen
New Mathematics and Natural Computation, vol. 2, no. 3, 2006.
An In-Depth Analysis of Information Markets with Aggregate Uncertainty [PDF, 348k]
Yiling Chen, Tracy Mullen, and Chao-Hsien Chu
Electronic Commerce Research, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 201--22, 2006.
Information Markets vs. Opinion Pools: An Empirical Comparison [PDF, 214k]
Yiling Chen, Chao-Hsien Chu, Tracy Mullen, and David M.Pennock
Proc. of the 6th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), pp. 58--67, Vancouver, BC Canada, June 2005.
Predicting Uncertain Outcomes Using Information Markets [PDF, 54k]
Yiling Chen, Tracy Mullen, and Chao-Hsien Chu
Proc. of the 8th Joint Conference on Information Sciences (JCIS), Salt Lake City, UT, July 2005.
Security Design and Information Aggregation in Markets [PDF, 252k]
Yiling Chen and Anthony M. Kwasnica
The Pennsylvania State University Technical Report, 2005.
Theoretical Investigation of Prediction Markets with Aggregate Uncertainty [PDF, 89k]
Yiling Chen, Tracy Mullen, and Chao-Hsien Chu
Proc. of the 7th International Conference on Electronic Commerce Research (ICECR), pp. 81--90, Dallas, TX, June 2004.
A Bipartite Graph Co-Clustering Approach for Ontology Mapping [PDF, 137k]
Yiling Chen and Frederico Fonseca,
Workshop of Semantic Web Technologies for Searching and Retrieving Scientific Data, in conjunction with the 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Sanibel Island, FL, October, 2003.
An Introduction to Support Vector Machines: A Review [PDF, 13k]
Yiling Chen and Isaac G. Council
AI Magazine, vol. 24, no.2, pp. 105--106, 2003.
An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Price Changes and Trading Volume in China Stock Market (In Chinese)
Yiling Chen, and Fengming Song
Journal of Management Sciences in China, vol.3 no.2, pp. 62--68, 2000.
Markets as an Information Aggregation Mechanism for Decision Support [PDF, 630k]
Ph.D. Dissertation,
School of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State
University, December 2005.
An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Price Changes and Trading Volume in China Stock Market
MS Thesis, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, June 1999.
Prediction Markets: Economics, Computation, and Mechanism Design [PDF, 1795k]
A half-day tutorial at ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), San Diego, CA, June, 2007.
Local Arrangement Co-Chair, ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), 2010.
Tutorial Chair, ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), 2008.
Program Committee, ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), 2010, ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC) 2009; International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2009; International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC) 2009; International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Internet Monetization track, 2008; International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE), 2008.
Organizing Committee, The 2nd
Workshop on Prediction Markets in conjunction with ACM
Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), 2007.The 3rd
Workshop on Prediction Markets in conjunction with ACM Conference on
Electronic Commerce (EC), 2008.
Reviewer, ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC);
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW); International Workshop
on Internet and Network Economics (WINE); Operations Research, Management Science;
Information Systems Research, Information Systems and e-Business
Management; Decision Science Institute (DSI ) Annual Meeting.
