Technologist, researcher and entrepreneur at the intersection of Computer Science and Economics, driven by building, designing and understanding economic and algorithmic systems. My work ranges from proving efficiency guarantees on the first price auction to building, executing and implementing auctions for risk and financial assets to building better maps that learn to be more useful.
Formerly Director of Market Design and Data Science at Carta, designing and building a better secondary market for venture-backed private equity. Prior to that, CTO at Tremor Technologies, where I helped build a better market for reinsurance. From 2015-2017, I was a post-doc in the Economics Department of the University of Maryland with Peter Cramton and a principal with Cramton Associates, advising bidders in the FCC incentive auction. In 2015, I received my PhD from the Economics and Theory group at Northwestern, advised by Jason Hartline. Before that I launched sweetopenroads to help cyclists find great roads to ride and developed an appreciation for financial markets and engineering at Bridgewater Associates.
Formerly Director of Market Design and Data Science at Carta, designing and building a better secondary market for venture-backed private equity. Prior to that, CTO at Tremor Technologies, where I helped build a better market for reinsurance. From 2015-2017, I was a post-doc in the Economics Department of the University of Maryland with Peter Cramton and a principal with Cramton Associates, advising bidders in the FCC incentive auction. In 2015, I received my PhD from the Economics and Theory group at Northwestern, advised by Jason Hartline. Before that I launched sweetopenroads to help cyclists find great roads to ride and developed an appreciation for financial markets and engineering at Bridgewater Associates.
publications
- A Tighter Welfare Guarantee for First-Price Auctions, with Sam Taggart and Zihe Wang. STOC 2018.
- Efficiency Guarantees from Data, with Denis Nekipelov and Vasilis Syrgkanis. NIPS 2017.
- On-demand or Spot? Selling the cloud to risk-averse customers, with Nicole Immorlica and Brendan Lucier. WINE 2016.
- Strategic Computation via Non-Revelation Mechanism Design. PhD thesis, August 2015.
- Approximately Optimal Risk-averse Routing Policies via Adaptive Discretization, with Evdokia Nikolova. AAAI 2015.
- On the Uniqueness of Equilibrium in Atomic Splittable Flow Games, with Umang Bhaskar, Lisa Fleischer and Chien-Chung Huang. Mathematics of Operations Research.
- Price of Anarchy for Auction Revenue, with Jason Hartline and Sam Taggart. EC 2014.
- Shopping with Bonus Money: eBay, loyalty schemes and consumer spending, with Elizabeth Churchill, Atish Das Sarma and Kamal Jain. Working paper, presented at #CHIMoney 2014.
- Prior-independent Auctions for Risk-averse Agents, with Hu Fu and Jason Hartline. EC 2013.
- A Dynamic Axiomatic Approach to First-Price Auctions, with Kamal Jain and Chris Wilkens. EC 2013.
- Coopetitive Ad Auctions, with Kamal Jain and Chris Wilkens. Working paper, presented at EC 2013 Workshop on Ad Auctions.
- The concavity of atomic splittable congestion games with non-linear utility functions. Working paper, presented at EC 2012 Workshop on Risk Aversion in Algorithmic Game Theory and Mechanism Design.
- Equilibria of atomic flow games are not unique, with Umang Bhaskar, Lisa Fleischer and Chien-Chung Huang. SODA 2009.
contact
- email: darrell dot hoy at gmail
