Rahul Sami's Homepage

Rahul Sami's homepage

Assistant Professor
School of Information
University of Michigan
1075 Beal Avenue #3246E
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Email: rsami AT umich.edu

Assistant professor at the School of Information, University of Michigan.

I completed my Ph.D. in the Yale University Computer Science Department , under the supervision of Joan Feigenbaum. From 2003 to 2005, I was a postdoctoral associate at MIT .

Teaching

Winter 2010:
Electronic Commerce (SI652/EECS547)
Recommender Systems (SI583)
Reputation Systems (SI683)
Fall 2009:
Practical Engagement Workshop: Content Management Systems (SI631)
Aggregation and Prediction Markets ( SI679 / SI779 )

Research Interests

My current research is focused on topics in the intersection of computer science and economics that arise in the study of Internet protocols and systems. I am interested in designing and analyzing incentive mechanisms, markets, and reputation systems to enable self-interested economic entities to cooperatively solve common goals, and in studying the distributed-computation problems that arise when mechanisms have to be computed in a network. Right now, my two most active research projects are on:

Computational and Strategic Foundations of Prediction Markets
Manipulation-Resistant Recommender Systems.

Publications

Professional Service
Upcoming conferences I'm involved in:

PC member for the Social Networks and Web 2.0 track at WWW09
Co-organizer of the Third Prediction Markets Workshop, held in conjunction with ACM EC'08.

	Assistant Professor School of Information University of Michigan 1075 Beal Avenue #3246E Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Email: rsami AT umich.edu
Assistant professor at the School of Information, University of Michigan. I completed my Ph.D. in the Yale University Computer Science Department , under the supervision of Joan Feigenbaum. From 2003 to 2005, I was a postdoctoral associate at MIT .
Teaching Winter 2010: Electronic Commerce (SI652/EECS547) Recommender Systems (SI583) Reputation Systems (SI683) Fall 2009: Practical Engagement Workshop: Content Management Systems (SI631) Aggregation and Prediction Markets ( SI679 / SI779 ) Research Interests My current research is focused on topics in the intersection of computer science and economics that arise in the study of Internet protocols and systems. I am interested in designing and analyzing incentive mechanisms, markets, and reputation systems to enable self-interested economic entities to cooperatively solve common goals, and in studying the distributed-computation problems that arise when mechanisms have to be computed in a network. Right now, my two most active research projects are on: Computational and Strategic Foundations of Prediction Markets Manipulation-Resistant Recommender Systems. Publications
Professional Service Upcoming conferences I'm involved in: PC member for the Social Networks and Web 2.0 track at WWW09 Co-organizer of the Third Prediction Markets Workshop, held in conjunction with ACM EC'08.