ORC Seminar: A talk by Vahab Mirrokni

Vahab Mirrokni Vice President Google Abstract: TBD Bio: Vahab Mirrokni is a Google Fellow and VP at Google Research, leading algorithm and optimization research groups at Google. These research teams include: market algorithms, large-scale graph mining, and large-scale optimization. Previously he was a distinguished scientist and senior research director at Google. He received his PhD from MIT in 2005 and his B.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology in 2001. He joined Google Research in 2008, after research positions at Microsoft Research, MIT and Amazon.com. He is the co-winner of best paper awards at KDD, ACM EC, and SODA. His research areas include algorithms, distributed and stochastic optimization, and computational economics. Recently he has been working on various algorithmic problems in machine learning, online optimization and mechanism design, and large-scale graph-based learning .