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Research Area: Econ and Social Sys |
Profile
Sébastien Lahaie is a research scientist at Yahoo! Research. Sébastien received his PhD in Computer Science from Harvard University in 2007. At Yahoo his research focuses on marketplace design, including sponsored search and display advertising. He is interested in designing market algorithms that scale well and properly anticipate user behavior. Other interests include preference elicitation, reputation systems, combinatorial optimization, and mechanism design.
Recent Publications, Projects and News
- Contract Auctions for Sponsored Search Sharad Goel; Sebastien Lahaie; Sergei Vassilvitskii, Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE), 2009
- A Kernel Method for Market Clearing Sebastien Lahaie, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2009 [view abstract]
- On the Communication Requirements of Verifying the VCG Outcome Sebastien Lahaie; David C. Parkes, ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), 2008 [view abstract]
- An Expressive Auction Design for Online Display Advertising Sebastien Lahaie; David C. Parkes; David M. Pennock, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2008 [view abstract]
- Revenue Analysis of a Family of Ranking Rules for Keyword Auctions Sebastien Lahaie; David M. Pennock, ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), 2007 [view abstract]
- An Analysis of Alternative Slot Auction Designs for Sponsored Search Sebastien Lahaie, ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), 2006 [view abstract]
- ICE: An Iterative Combinatorial Exchange David C. Parkes; Ruggiero Cavallo; Adam Juda; Adam Kirsch; Alex Kulesza; Sebastien Lahaie; Benjamin Lubin; Loizos Michael; Jeffrey Shneidman, ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), 2005 [view abstract]
- More on the Power of Demand Queries in Combinatorial Auctions: Learning Atomic Languages and Handling Incentives Sebastien Lahaie; Florin Constantin; David C. Parkes, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2005 [view abstract]
- Applying Learning Algorithms to Preference Elicitation Sebastien Lahaie; David C. Parkes, ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), 2004 [view abstract]