Online Services and Advertising

We conduct research in the fascinating areas of online services, The Web and online advertising. We combine insights from machine learning, game theory, AI, and social network analysis to create the computational intelligence that will be crucial to next generation online services.

Computational Advertising
Our computational advertising research is conducted in close partnership with AdCenter Labs. Our direct access to adCenter resources gives us a unique perspective in this emerging resarch field.

Applied Games
Our mission is to leverage the methods of machine learning and game theory for addressing relevant applications both in recreational games and in abstract decision games played in the real world.

People

Primary Contacts: Ralf Herbrich or Thore Graepel

Borchert, Tom	Graepel, Thore	Herbrich, Ralf	Jost, Markus	Quiñonero Candela, Joaquin
Schwaighofer, Anton	Stern, David

Affiliate Members Hamadi, Youssef Samulowitz, Horst Snelson, Ed Syme, Don

Key Partners Ghahramani, Zoubin Kleinerman, Christian Li, Ying Najm, Tarek Toutonghi, Mike   O'Kelley, Patrick Shawe-Taylor, John Stojanovic, Alexander Williamson, Bob

“I get the chance to put my work right into products - not just in theory.” — Ralf Herbrich, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge

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