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Social Algorithms at MSR-SVC

This is an umbrella project for several related efforts at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley in the areas of social network analysis and human computation.

Current projects

  • Adaptive crowd-selection in crowdsourcing
    People: Ittai Abraham, Omar Alonso, Vasilis Kandylas and Alex Slivkins
  • Latent social structure in a social network
    People: Ittai Abraham, David Kempe, Shiri Chechik and Alex Slivkins
    Writeups: Latent similarities in a multiplex social network (2012).
  • Incentives for information propagation in network
    People: Moshe Babaioff, Shahar Dobzinski, Sigal Oren and Aviv Zohar
    Writeups: On Bitcoin and red baloonsNon-technical summary.
  • Selection and influence in cultural dynamics
    People: David Kempe, Jon Kleinberg, Sigal Oren and Alex Slivkins
  • Contagion in financial networks
    People: Koralai Kirabaeva, Sigal Oren and Alex Slivkins

External visitors and collaborators

Omar Alonso (Microsoft)
Shiri Chechik (Weizmann; intern at MSR-SV in summer 2010)
Shahar Dobzinski (Cornell -> Weizmann)
Vasilis Kandylas (Microsoft)
David Kempe (USC)
Koralai Kirabaeva (IMF)
Jon Kleinberg (Cornell)
Sigal Oren (Cornell; intern at MSR-SV in summer 2011)