Faculty Members
Prof. Simon Board Economics
Simon Board is an assistant professor of Economics at UCLA. He received his Ph.D at Stanford Business School, and has taught at the University of Toronto and UCLA. Simon’s research interests include pricing with strategic customers, optimal relational contracts and models of reputation. He teaches contract theory in the PhD program and e-commerce to undergraduates.Prof. Adnan Darwiche Computer Science
Adnan Darwiche is a professor of computer science at UCLA. His research interests span the theory and practice of automated reasoning, including both symbolic and probabilistic reasoning. On the theoretical side, he has been involved in developing representational schemes for both logic and probability and in developing exact and approximate inference algorithms that operate on such representations. On the practical side, he has been involved in developing publicly-available software systems for probabilistic reasoning, satisfiability solving, and knowledge compilation, and in their application to various domains, including planning, diagnosis, bioinformatics and reasoning about text.Prof. Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn Economics
Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn is a micro-economic theorist with research interests in both pure and applied economic theory. His research agenda in pure theory focuses on robust mechanism design. On the applied side, he studies dynamic games with incomplete information and has written papers on firm reputation, relational labor contracts and information aggregation.Prof. Ichiro Obara Economics
Ichiro Obara is an associate professor in the department of Economics at UCLA. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Economics from University of Pennsylvania and has taught at UCLA and University of Minnesota. His work ranges from the theory and application of repeated games to the theory of mechanism design. His recent research interestes include repeated games with nonexponential discounting, repeated games with informational lag, and an application of POMDP to repeated games with private information.Prof. Ali H. Sayed Electrical Engineering
Ali H. Sayed is a professor in the department of Electrical Engineering at UCLA. His research interests span several areas including adaptation and learning, adaptive and cognitive networks, flocking behavior and swarming, cooperative behavior, bio-inspired networks, distributed processing, self-healing circuitry, statistical signal processing, estimation and filtering theories, signal processing for communications, system theory, and algorithms for large-scale computations.Prof. Paulo Tabuada Electrical Engineering
Paulo Tabuada was born in Lisbon, Portugal, one year after the Carnation Revolution. He studied Aerospace Engineering at Instituto Superior Tecnico in Lisbon and he obtained a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Institute for Systems and Robotics, a private research institute associated with Instituto Superior Tecnico. After having the pleasure of being a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania and faculty at the University of Notre Dame, he joined UCLA where the Mediterranean atmosphere reminds him of Portugal. He is interested in the modeling, analysis, and control of cyber-physical systems. His approach is rooted in mathematical systems theory and the belief that the commonalities between control, game-theory, communication, computation, and economics are more important than their apparent differences.Prof. Mihaela van der Schaar (Center Director) Electrical Engineering
Mihaela van der Schaar is Chancellor Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA. Her research interests include game theoretic design, network economics and game theory, learning in games, as well as designing expert systems for knowledge discovery. Her past interests spanned the theory and design of novel algorithms, standards and systems for multimedia communications, networking, architectures, systems, compression and processing.Prof. Jenn Wortman Vaughan Computer Science
Jenn Wortman Vaughan is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009, and subsequently spent a year as a Computing Innovation Fellow at Harvard. Her research interests are in machine learning, algorithmic economics, and social computing, all of which she studies using techniques from theoretical computer science. She is the recipient of Penn's 2009 Rubinoff dissertation award for innovative applications of computer technology, several best paper awards, and a National Science Foundation CAREER award. In her spare time, she is involved in a variety of efforts to provide support for women in computer science; most notably, she co-founded the Annual Workshop for Women in Machine Learning, which will be held for the sixth time in 2011.Prof. William Zame Economics
William Zame (Ph.D., Mathematics, Tulane University 1970) is Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Economics and of Mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles (where he has been on the faculty since 1991) and Director of the California Social Science Experimental Laboratory (CASSEL). Before coming to UCLA he held appointments in the Mathematics Departments of Rice University, Tulane University and the State University of New York at Buffalo, and in the Economics and Mathematics Departments at The Johns Hopkins University. He has also held visiting appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Washington, the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, the Institut Mittag-Leffler, the University of Copenhagen, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1994 and was a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for 2004-2005.Student Members
Yu Zhang
Yuanzhang Xiao
Jie Xu
Suming Chen
Khaled S. Refaat