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Research Area: Econ and Social Sys |
Profile
Sharad Goel works in the Microeconomics and Social Systems group in New York. He is interested in empirical and theoretical problems at the intersection of computer science and the social sciences, particularly questions motivated by sociology and economics.
Sharad holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics and an MS in Computer Science from Cornell. Prior to joining Yahoo! Research, he was a research fellow in the math departments at Stanford and the University of Southern California.
Recent Publications, Projects and News
- Predicting consumer behavior with Web search Sharad Goel; Jake M. Hofman; Sebastien Lahaie; David M. Pennock; Duncan J. Watts, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010 [view abstract]
- Assessing Respondent-Driven Sampling Sharad Goel; Matthew Salganik, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010, 15 [view abstract]
- Prediction Without Markets Sharad Goel; Daniel M. Reeves; Duncan J. Watts; David M. Penock, Electronic Commerce, 2010 [view abstract]
- Anatomy of the Long Tail: Ordinary People with Extraordinary Tastes Sharad Goel;Andrei Broder; Evgeniy Gabrilovich; Bo Pang, WSDM, 2010 [view abstract]
- Contract Auctions for Sponsored Search Sharad Goel; Sebastien Lahaie; Sergei Vassilvitskii, Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE), 2009 [view abstract]
- Social Search in "Small-World" Experiments Sharad Goel; Roby Muhamad; Duncan J. Watts, World Wide Web (WWW), 2009
- Collective Revelation: A Mechanism for Self-Verified, Weighted, and Truthful Predictions Sharad Goel; Daniel M. Reeves; David M. Pennock, Electronic Commerce (EC), 2009
- Centmail: Rate Limiting via Certified Micro-Donations Sharad Goel; Jake Hofman; John Langford; David M. Pennock; Daniel M. Reeves, Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS), 2009
- Respondent-Driven Sampling as Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sharad Goel; Matt Salganik, Statistics in Medicine, 2009, 17
- Pricing Combinatorial Markets for Tournaments Yiling Chen; Sharad Goel; David Pennock, Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), 2008
- Predictive Indexing for Fast Search Sharad Goel; John Langford; Alex Strehl, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2008