Saeed Alaei

I am currently a postdoctoral research associate at Cornell.   Research Interests: Mechanism Design, Algorithmic Game Theory Optimization, Combinatorial Optimization, Stochastic Optimization Online Algorithms Email: More Information: Curriculum Vitae

Publications:

• Bayesian Combinatorial Auctions: Expanding Single Buyer Mechanisms to Many Buyers.
  Saeed Alaei. Accepted to special issue of SIAM Journal on Computing 2013
• On Random Sampling Auctions for Digital Goods.
  Saeed Alaei, Azarakhsh Malekian, Aravind Srinivasan. Accepted to ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation 2013
• The Simple Economics of Approximately Optimal Auctions.
  Saeed Alaei, Hu Fu, Nima Haghpanah, Jason Hartline. FOCS 2013
• The Online Stochastic Generalized Assignment Problem.
  Saeed Alaei, Mohammadtaghi Hajiaghayi, Vahid Liaghat. APPROX 2013
• Bayesian Optimal Auctions via Multi- to Single-agent Reduction.
  Saeed Alaei, Hu Fu, Nima Haghpanah, Jason Hartline, Azarakhsh Malekian. EC 2012
• Online prophet-inequality matching with applications to ad allocation
  Saeed Alaei, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Vahid Liaghat. EC 2012
• Bayesian Combinatorial Auctions: Expanding Single Buyer Mechanisms to Many Buyers
  Saeed Alaei. FOCS 2011
  
• 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. SIGecom Exchanges 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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