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Research Area: Econ and Social Sys |
Profile
Sharad Goel is a member in the Microeconomics and Social Systems group. He works on empirical and theoretical problems at the intersection of computer science and the social sciences, and is particularly interested in questions motivated by sociology and economics.
Sharad received a PhD in Applied Mathematics 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
- Pricing Combinatorial Markets for Tournaments Yiling Chen; Sharad Goel; David Pennock, 40th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2008), 2008
- Horseshoes in Multidimensional Scaling and Kernel Methods Persi Diaconis; Sharad Goel; Susan Holmes, Annals of Applied Statistics, 2008
- Analysis of Top to Bottom-k Shuffles Sharad Goel, Annals of Applied Probability, 2006, 1
- Mixing Time Bounds via the Spectral Profile Sharad Goel; Ravi Montenegro; Prasad Tetali, Electronic Journal of Probability, 2006
- Modified Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities for Some Models of Random Walk Sharad Goel, Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, 2004