Michael Kearns
National Center Professor of Management & Technology
Computer and Information Science (CIS)
Honors and Awards: George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research - 2005, Henry and Bryna David Lecturer - Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education of the National Academy of Sciences - 2004, American Association for Artificial Intelligence - 2004
Research Expertise: Machine Learning | Algorithms and Complexity
Michael's primary research interests are in machine learning, probabilistic artificial intelligence, algorithmic game theory, and computational finance. He integrates problems from these areas with methods from theoretical computer science and related disciplines. While the majority of Michael's work is mathematical in nature, he has also participated in a variety of systems and experimental work, including spoken dialogue systems, software agents, and most recently, human-subject experiments in strategic and economic interaction.
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Affiliations: National Center Chair in Resource Management and Technology; Co-Director of the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science; Professor of Operations and Information Management (Wharton)
Recent Publications 
- Colonel Blotto on Facebook: The effect of social relations on strategic interaction, Kohli, P. | Bachrach, Y. | Stillwell, D. | Kearns, M. | Herbrich, R. | Graepel, T., Proceedings of the 3rd Annual ACM Web Science Conference, WebSci'12, 2012
- Experiments in social computation, Kearns, M., Communications of the ACM, 2012
- Behavioral experiments on a network formation game, Kearns, M. | Judd, S. | Vorobeychik, Y., Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2012
- Competitive contagion in networks, Goyal, S. | Kearns, M., Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, 2012
- Behavioral conflict and fairness in social networks, Judd, S. | Kearns, M. | Vorobeychik, Y., Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2011