Arpita Ghosh

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I received my B.Tech from IIT Bombay in 2001, and my PhD from Stanford in 2006. I spent the next 6 years (2006-2012) in the Microeconomics and Social Sciences group at Yahoo! Research. In August 2012, I moved to Cornell as an Associate Professor of Information Science in the School of Computing and Information Science. I received tenure in June 2016.

Update (June 2019): It is time to move on, to explore new directions. I have resigned my position at Cornell, and will no longer be pursuing or undertaking any activities (conference chairing, talks, program committee service, grant reviewing, book writing, or anything else!) related to my research and career thus far.
More when I am ready. And in the meantime, to all those I have met along the way over these past several years, I wish you all the best!


About my academic work:

My research focused on using mathematical analysis to inform the design of online systems. I was interested especially in the analysis and design of online user contribution economies---both explicit, as in crowdsourcing and user-generated content platforms, or implicit, as in the collection of data from privacy-aware users---within a mathematical framework, with a focus on incentive design. I also got rather curious about the idea of `behavioral' mechanism design, exploring how departures from the classical economic models of agent behavior can impact optimal design.
(Then, of course, I stopped being curious about these things, as you've probably inferred from the update above. Go figure!)

Some representative papers:

(A complete list of papers, including other papers on these topics, is below.)


Teaching


Networks II: Market Design
        Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013

Games, Economic Behavior, and the Internet
        Fall 2014, Fall 2013

Networks, crowds and markets: Foundations for formal analysis and design
        Fall 2017, Fall 2015

Academic Service


Journals: Conferences: Workshop Chairing and Organization:

Book Chapters, Surveys, Tutorials


Game Theory and Incentives in Human Computation Systems. Arpita Ghosh. Book chapter. Handbook of Human Computation, Springer 2013.

Social Computing and User-generated Content: A Game-Theoretic Approach. Arpita Ghosh. SigEcom Exchanges, Vol 11.2, December 2012.


Tutorials:

Publications

Some "recent" papers:

Publications (By Topic)


A chronological list of publications is here.
Crowdsourcing and user-generated content: Incentive design and analysis        Economics of online information and privacy        Internet marketplaces: Online advertising, social lending and trade networks        Algorithmic game theory        Designing well-connected networks        Miscellaneous topics        

Crowdsourcing and user-generated content: Incentive design and analysis

Economics of online information and privacy

Internet marketplaces: Online advertising, social lending and trade networks

Algorithmic game theory

Designing well-connected networks

Miscellaneous topics

Publications (Chronological)