Recipient of NSF CAREER award; supported by grants from NIST, NSA, DARPA, ARPA-E, NIH (R01), NSF, and industry partners like Google; Received Facebook Fellowship (2015-2017), Siebel Scholarship (class of 2016), and NDSEG Fellowship (2012-2015); Involved in global blood donation through a visiting research position at Facebook; Long-term involvement in organ allocation through UNOS.
Research Experience
Developing and deploying enterprise-grade AI systems at Arthur; Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland with formal affiliations to UMIACS, AMSC, HCIL, and MTI; Built the earliest allocation and pricing products at Optimized Markets.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University
Background
Research interests: intersection of machine learning and economics, with a focus on designing incentives that promote good participation in complex systems. Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Arthur, and tenured professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland.
Miscellany
Actively advises and invests in startups, particularly those founded by UMD and CMU; Example: GovShop, providing market intelligence to public sector buyers and suppliers.