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Yaser Abu-Mostafa, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The Theory, Algorithms, and Applications of Automated Learning

Peter Bossaerts, William D. Hacker Professor of Economics and Management, Professor of Finance, and Executive Officer for the Social Sciences
Asset Pricing Theory, Experimental Finance, Cognitive Neuroscience, Econometric Theory, General Equilibrium Theory, Game Theory, Mechanism Design, Derivatives Analysis, Applied Econometrics, Market Microstructure Analysis, Corporate Finance

Kim Border, Professor of Economics
Equilibrium theory, Mathematical Methods

Chris Chambers
, Assistant Professor of Economics
Microeconomic theory, mechanism design, political economy

Mani Chandy, Simon Ramo Professor and Professor of Computer Science
Distributed Object-Oriented Systems. Use of the Internet and World-Wide Web for distributed applications. Mathematics of distributed program construction

Jaksa Cvitanic, Professor of Mathematical Finance
Asset Pricing, Portfolio and Risk Management, Contract Theory, Stochastic Optimization and Control

John Doyle, Professor of Control and Dynamic Systems and Electrical Engineering
Theoretical foundations for complex networks, primarily in engineering and biology, but also multiscale physics and financial markets, and the interplay between robustness, feedback, control, dynamical systems, computation, communications, and statistical physics

Federico Echenique, Associate Professor of Economics
Game Theory, Microeconomic Theory, and Mathematical Economics

Jacob Goeree, Professor of Economics
Game Theory, Experimental Economics

Matias Iaryczower, Assistant Professor of Economics and Political Science
Political Economy, Institutions and Mechanism Design, Game Theory

John Ledyard, Allen and Lenabelle Davis Professor of Economics and Social Sciences
Theory, Mechanism Design, Auctions

Steven Low, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Control and Optimization of Communication Networks and Protocols

Andrea Mattozzi, Assistant Professor of Economics
Electoral Markets, Industrial Organization of the Political Sector, Analysis of Political Networks, Design of Direct Democracy Institutions

Preston McAfee, J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Business, Economics and Management
Auctions, Pricing, Mechanism Design, Orgainzations

Richard Murray, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Nonlinear control of mechanical systems with applications to aerospace vehicles and robotic locomotion, active control of fluids with applications to propulsion systems, and nonlinear dynamical systems theory

Charlie Plott, Edward S. Harkness Professor of Economics and Social Science
Information flows in political and economic processes, design and testing of information aggregation mechanisms

Leonard Schulman, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Theory of Computation

Matthew Spitzer, Professor of Law and Social Science
Regulation, Political Economy of the Law

Chris Umans, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Theoretical Computer Science, Complexity Theory

Simon Wilkie, Senior Fellow, USC Annenberg Center for Communication, Former Chief Economist at the FCC

Mark Wise, Professor of Physics

Leeat Yariv, Associate Professor of Economics
Collective Choice, Analysis of Communication, Social Networks, Mechanism Design, Experimental Economics

 

 


Visitors

William Zame, Professor of Economics, UCLA

 

 


Postdocs

Jason R. Marden, Ph.D, UCLA

Stuart McDonald, Ph.D, University of Queensland

Ahuva Mu'alem, Ph.D, Hebrew University

Hatice Ozsoy, Ph.D, Rice University

Eran Schmaya, Ph.D, Tel Aviv University

 


Graduate Students

Agostino Capponi
Working with Mani Chandy

Guilherme P. de Freitas
IST Fellow

Shankar Kalyanaraman
Working with Chris Umans

Sera Linardi
Working with John Ledyard

Guido Maretto
Working with Jaksa Cvitanic

Laurent Mathevet
Working with Federico Echenique

Mohamed Mostagir
IST Fellow

Laura Panattoni
Working with Preston McAfee

Amrit Pratap
Working with Yser Abu-Mostafa

Julian Romero
Working with John Ledyard

David Young
Working with Mani Chandy and John Ledyard



SURF/MURF Students



Alumni

Jernej Copic , UCLA, U.S.A

Sean Crockett, Baruch College, U.S.A

Jon X. Eguia, New York University, U.S.A

Andrea Galeotti, Essex University, U.K.

Ron Lavi, The Technion, Israel

Dunia Lopez-Pintado, Columbia University, U.S.A

Debrah Meloso, Universita' Bocconi, Italy

Brian Rogers, Northwestern University, U.S.A

Tudor Stoenescu
, JPL/NASA, U.S.A

Ao (Kevin) Tang
, California Institute of Technology, U.S.A

Caltech Social and Information Sciences Laboratory Information Science and Technology