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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
- Anatomy of the Long Tail: Ordinary People with Extraordinary Tastes Sharad Goel; Andrei Broder; Evgeniy Gabrilovich; Bo Pang, Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2010
- 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
- Contract Auctions for Sponsored Search Sharad Goel; Sebastien Lahaie; Sergei Vassilvitskii, Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE), 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
- 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