Saeed Alaei

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at University of Maryland. - College Park My advisor is Samir Khuller.   Research Interests: Mechanism Design & Algorithmic Game Theory Optimization & Approximation Algorithms Email: More Information: Curriculum Vitae Graduate Coursework

Publications:

• Bayesian Combinatorial Auctions: Expanding Single Buyer Mechanisms to Many Buyers
  Saeed Alaei. FOCS 2011 [conference slides] [prophet inequalities slides]
  Invited to special issue of SIAM Journal on Computing.
  Invited to special issue of Games and Economic Behavior.
• AdCell: Ad Allocation in Cellular Networks
  Saeed Alaei, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Vahid Liaghat, Dan Pei, Barna Saha. ESA 2011.
• Competitive Equilibrium in Two Sided Matching Markets with General Utility Functions
  Saeed Alaei, Kamal Jain, Azarakhsh Malekian. Submitted 2011.
• Balanced Allocation with Succinct Representation
  Saeed Alaei, Azarakhsh Malekian, Ravi Kumar, Erik Vee. KDD 2010.
• An Analysis of Troubled Assets Reverse Auction
  Saeed Alaei, Azarakhsh Malekian. WINE 2009.
  (Best Student Paper Award). [conference slides]
• Online Allocation of Display Advertisements Subject to Advanced Sales Contracts
  Saeed Alaei, Esteban Arcaute, Samir Khuller, Wenjing Ma, Azarakhsh Malekian and John A. Tomlin. ADKDD 2009
• On Random Sampling Auctions for Digital Goods
  Saeed Alaei, Azarakhsh Malekian, Aravind Srinivasan. EC 2009 [conference slides] [long slides]
• Maximizing Sequence-Submodular Functions and its Application to Online Advertising
  Saeed Alaei, Azarakhsh Malekian. Working Paper 2008.
• Strategic Bidding in eBay Repeated Auction
  Saeed Alaei, Azarakhsh Malekian. Working Paper 2008.
• SkipTree: A Scalable Range-Queryable Distributed Data Structure for Multidimensional Data
  Saeed Alaei, Mohammad Toossi. ISAAC 2005.

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