Arpita Ghosh - Research Scientist

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

Profile


Arpita's current research focuses on algorithms and mechanism design in the context of the Web, particularly online advertising, social networks, social lending and privacy preserving mechanisms.

Arpita received her B.Tech from IIT Bombay in 2001, and her PhD from Stanford in 2006, with a thesis on designing well-connected networks using convex optimization. She joined Yahoo! Research in July 2006.

Email: arpita AT yahoo-inc DOT com

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.