My research focuses on the design and analysis of web services that improve the productivity of the online community. One of the main challenges in this area of research is that the community consists of diverse agents with their own agendas. Drawing on ideas from game theory, statistics, and optimization theory, I design protocols and develop analytic techniques that take into account the actions of the users and the incentives that underlie their choices.
I received my PhD from Stanford University under the supervision of Professor Yoav Shoham, working on topics related to algorithmic game theory including coalitional game theory, mechanism design, and Nash dynamics. I received my BS and MS degrees in Computer Science and Economics from Yale University, under the supervision of Professors Ming-Yang Kao and John Geanakoplos.
- Rakesh Agrawal, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Alan Halverson, and Samuel Ieong, Diversifying Search Results, in Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2009
- Atish Das Sarma, Sreenivas Gollapudi, and Samuel Ieong, Bypass Rates: Reducing Query Abandonment using Negative Inferences, in Proc. of 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., August 2008
- Samuel Ieong and Yoav Shoham, Bayesian Coalitional Games, in Proceedings of National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), American Association for Artificial Intelligence , 2008
- Samuel Ieong, Anthony Man-Cho So, and Mukund Sundararajan, Mechanism Design for Stochastic Optimization Problems, in Proceedings of Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE), Springer-Verlag, 2007
- Samuel Ieong, Nicolas Lambert, Yoav Shoham, and Ronen Brafman, Near-Optimal Search in Continuous Domains, in Proceedings of National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), American Association for Artificial Intelligence , 2007
- Samuel Ieong and Yoav Shoham, Multi-Attribute Coalitional Games, in Proceedings of ACM Electronic Commerce (ACM-EC), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2006
- Samuel Ieong, Bob McGrew, Eugene Nudelman, Yoav Shoham, and Qixiang Sun, Fast and Compact: A Simple Class of Congestion Games, in Proceedings of National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), American Association for Artificial Intelligence , 2005
- Samuel Ieong and Yoav Shoham, Marginal Contribution Nets: A Compact Representation Scheme for Coalitional Games, in Proceedings of ACM Electronic Commerce (ACM-EC), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2005
- Samuel Ieong, Ming-Yang Kao, Tak-Wah Lam, Wing-Kin Sung, and Siu-Ming Yiu, Predicting RNA Secondary Structures with Arbitrary Pseudoknots by Maximizing the Number of Stacking Pairs, in Jounral of Computational Biology, 2003
Professional Activities
I have served on the program committee for the following conferences.
- National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2007, 2008
- Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2008, 2009
- ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC) 2009
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2009
- Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling (MPREF) 2008
- Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 2008, 2009
