Microsoft Research @ ACM EC’17

Workshops & Tutorials: June 26–27

Technical Program: June 28–30

Venue: Ray and Maria Stata Center on MIT campus (opens in new tab)
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139

The Eighteenth ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (ACM EC’17) will be held at MIT in Cambridge, MA, June 26-30, 2017.

Microsoft scientists co-authored 21% of the accepted papers, or 16 out of 75. The Program Co-Chair, Local Chair, Workshop Co-Chair, and seven Senior Program Committee members are from Microsoft. Microsoft employees are co-organizing two workshops and two tutorials and giving an invited Plenary Talk. A Microsoft postdoc will receive the 2017 ACM SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation award and a second postdoc will receive an honorable mention for the award.

Program Committee members

• Moshe Babaioff, Program Co-Chair
• Brendan Lucier, Local Chair
• Jenn Wortman Vaughan, Workshop Co-Chair
• Yannai A. Gonczarowski, Posters Chair

Senior Program Committee

• Nicole Immorlica
• Ian Kash
• David Pennock
• Alex Slivkins
• Siddharth Suri
• Vasilis Syrgkanis
• E. Glen Weyl

Workshops

• 3rd Workshop on Algorithmic Game Theory and Data Science
  Co-Organizer: Vasilis Syrgkanis
• Forecasting Workshop
  Co-Organizer: David Rothschild

Tutorials

• Incentivizing and Coordinating Exploration
  Co-Organizer: Alex Slivkins
• Pricing in Combinatorial Markets: Equilibria and Prophet Inequalities
  Co-Organizer: Brendan Lucier

Plenary talks

• Graphons: A Nonparametric Method to Model, Estimate, and Design Algorithms for Massive Networks by Jennifer Chayes
• 2017 SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award presentation by Peng Shi