Yiling Chen

I am a Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. I am a member of the EconCS and AI research groups, and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS). Prior to Harvard, I spent about two years at Yahoo! Research in New York City. I obtained my Ph.D. from the College of Information Sciences and Technology at The Pennsylvania State University. I am a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and The Penn State Alumni Association Early Career Award, and was recognized by IEEE Intelligent Systems as one of AI’s 10 to Watch in 2011.

My research, situated at the interface between computer science and economics, lies in the emerging area of social computing, where human creativity and resources are harnessed for the purpose of computational tasks. I am interested in analyzing and designing social computing systems according to both computational and economic objectives. My interests include information elicitation and aggregation, behavioral experiments, algorithmic game theory, machine learning, and multi-agent systems.

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