Farnaz Ronaghi

Department of Management Science and Engineering

Stanford University

Address:

Farnaz Ronaghi

475 Via Ortega

Huang Engineering Center, Suite 314I

Stanford, CA, 94305

Email: farnaazATstanfordDOTedu

You can find my CV here.

Education:

I am Ph.D. student in Information Science and Technology group of Management Science and Engineering department at Stanford University. My Advisor is Amin Saberi. I received my B.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology majoring in Computer Engineering and my M.Sc. from Stanford University. I am interested in the economic and algorithmic aspects of online networks and markets, and am applying this research to design more efficient online educational experiences. I am fascinated with the potential of online education to empower people and improve lives.

Research Interests:

My main reseach interests include

Analysis of Incentives on Networks
Auction Theory and Mechanism Design
Internet Commerce

Publications/ Technical Writings:

A Game-Theoretic Model of Attention in Social Networks. With Ashish Goel. to appear in the 9th Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph, WAW'12. [PDF]

Some computational tools for digital archive and metadata maintenance. With David Gleich, Xiangrui Meng, Ying Wang, Margot Gerritsen and Amin Saberi, BIT Numerical Mathematics, 51:127-154, 2011. 10.1007/s10543-011-0324-6. [PDF]

Convergence of Logit Dynamics for Graphical Coordination Games on Simple Graph Structures.

General-Pose People Detection in High-Resolution Images

Other Academic Activities:

The Game Theory Lab: The game theory lab offers a collection of classic games taken from economics/socialogy literature. It is designed to help economics students learn game-theoretic concepts better via playing simple and interactive games. I worked with a team of two Masters students on designing and implementing the interface and the games.

The Venture Lab: Venture-Lab is an online entrepernuership class taught by Chuck Eesley to tens of thousands of students around the globe. The venture-lab is designed for students to find teams, work together on their startup idea and get feedback from their peers as well as their mentors. I am responsible for designing and implementing the website as well as mentoring two Masters students who help us with the design and implementation.

Activities from the past:

I worked on statistical models for revenue prediction as a summer intern in AOL Advertising R&D supervised by Aaron Flores.

I worked as a research assistant in CADS group directed by M. Gerritsen and A. Saberi. Projects include:

	Department of Management Science and Engineering Stanford University
	Address: Farnaz Ronaghi 475 Via Ortega Huang Engineering Center, Suite 314I Stanford, CA, 94305 Email: farnaazATstanfordDOTedu You can find my CV here.