David T. Lee

I am a PhD student in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where I work with Ashish Goel. I received my BSc in Electrical Engineering at Caltech, where I worked with Jehoshua Bruck.

My thesis focus is on applying insights from dispute resolution, psychology, and social choice to the design of algorithms and systems for large group decision-making. More generally, I am interested in understanding why people polarize, and how to bring them together to collaborate or make common decisions.

Another of my research interests is in randomness, computation, and biology. I am interested in the power of randomness for the design of algorithms and the study and design of computational frameworks that are inspired by biology. Specifically, I have recently been interested in computation using urn models.

Publications

P. Dandekar, A. Goel, D. Lee. Biased Assimilation, Homophily, and the Dynamics of Polarization, Workshop on Internet and Network Economics 2012.
A. Goel, D. Lee. Triadic Consensus: A Voting Rule for Crowdsourcing Applications, Workshop on Internet and Network Economics 2012 (also presented at Workshop on Social Computing and User Generated Content at Electronic Commerce 2012).
D. Lee, J. Bruck. Modeling Biological Circuits using Urn Functions, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2012.
D. Lee, J. Bruck. Generating Probability Distributions using Multivalued Stochastic Relay Circuits, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2011.

David T. Lee

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Publications