Yiling Chen

I am an associate professor of computer science at Harvard 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 the Microeconomics 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 Pennsylvania State University. I am a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and was recognized by IEEE Intelligent Systems as one of AI’s 10 to Watch in 2011.

• WINE 2013 will take place at Harvard in December! I am co-chairing the PC with Nicole Immorlica.
• I am co-organizing The Second Cambridge Area Economics and Computation Day (CAEC’13) and The 3rd Workshop on Social Computing and User-Generated Content at EC’13. Consider submitting your work and/or participating!

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 prediction markets and other information aggregation mechanisms, peer production, algorithmic game theory, auction theory, mechanism design, multi-agent systems, and web data mining.

• Editor-in-Chief, SIGecom Exchanges, July 2010 – June 2012
• Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’13), Senior Program Committee
• ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC’13), Program Committee
• Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP’13), Program Committee
• Workshop on Social Computing and User Generated Content at EC’13, Organizing Committee
• Cambridge Area Economics and Computational Day (CAEC’13), Steering Committee and Co-Organizer