Arpita Ghosh

Research Area: Econ and Social Sys
Location: Yahoo! Research Silicon Valley

Profile

Arpita obtained her B.Tech from IIT Bombay in 2001, and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2006. For her thesis, she worked on network design problems, where she used convex optimization to design fast random walks on graphs. She joined Yahoo! Research in July 2006, where she has been working on problems in algorithmic game theory and mechanism design, particularly in the context of online auctions. In her spare time, she is an enthusiastic photographer.

Recent Publications, Projects and News

  • Yahoo!’s Outstanding List of Accepted Papers at EC 08 - The Ninth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC 08) will be held July 8 to 12 in Chicago, IL. Yahoo! will be repeating its stellar technical presence, earning the honor of 7 out of 38 total accepted papers this year as a result of a highly rigorous selection process.