Sanmay Das
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Sanmay Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Assistant Professor, The Lally School of Management and Technology (by courtesy), RPI
Member, Data Science Research Center, RPI
Visiting Scholar, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, US Treasury Dept.

Office: Lally 302
Mailing Address:
Dept. of Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th St.
Troy, NY 12180-3590 		            




e-mail: sanmay at cs dot rpi dot edu
Phone: 518-276-2782 
Fax: 518-276-4033 

Research

I am interested in both designing effective algorithms for agents in complex, uncertain environments and in understanding the social or collective outcomes of individual behavior. Therefore, I have broad interests across computational social science (market microstructure, matching markets, social networks) and machine learning (reinforcement learning, sequential decision-making, supervised learning, data mining). You can find more details in a relatively recent research statement or on my papers page.

Funding

I am grateful to be supported by:

  • An NSF CAREER award on The Dynamics of Collective Intelligence (May 2010 -- May 2015).

  • A US-Israel Binational Science Foundation grant (with David Sarne) on "Equilibria in Shopping-Agent Mediated Marketplaces" (Oct 2009 -- Sep 2013).

  • An NSF CDI Type II grant (as co-PI) for Cyber Enabled Discovery System for Advanced Multidisciplinary Study of Humanitarian Logistics for Disaster Response (with PI Jose Holguin-Veras, co-PIs Malik Magdon-Ismail and John Mitchell, in collaboration with Tricia Wachtendorf at the University of Delaware) (Jan 2012 -- Dec 2015).

    • News

  • August 2011: AMMA 2011 was terrific! Looking forward to 2013.

  • June 2011: I was workshops chair for EC 2011.

    • Current Graduate Students

  • Mithun Chakraborty (3rd year Ph.D. student)
  • Meenal Chhabra (3rd year Ph.D. student)
  • Allen Lavoie (2nd year Ph.D. student)

    • Current Undergraduate Research Students

  • Jeffry Gaston
  • Andrew Bolin

    • Former Students

  • Yonatan Naamad (starting a Ph.D. at Princeton in Fall 2011)
  • Aseem Brahma (M.S., 2010): Now at Qualcomm in San Diego
  • Matthew Gerrior (RPI Class of 2012)

    • Service and Program Committees

    I am a co-founder and member of the steering committee of the Conferences on Auctions, Market Mechanisms, and their Applications (AMMA). I served as PC co-chair of AMMA in 2009 (proceedings)and general co-chair in 2011. I was also workshops chair of ACM EC 2011. I organized a session on Hard Problems in Learning and Decision Making at INFORMS 2010, and a session on Computational Intelligence in Financial and Prediction Markets at INFORMS 2008. I co-organized the 2008 CS Day at RPI on Machine Learning and Data Mining.

    I have also served / am serving on several program committees, including:

  • AAAI 2012 (Senior PC)
  • ICML 2012
  • EC 2012
  • AAMAS 2012 (Senior PC)
  • IJCAI 2011 (Senior PC)
  • AMMA 2011, AMMA 2009 (co-chair)
  • NIPS 2010 Workshop on Computational Social Science and the Wisdom of Crowds
  • PAKDD 2010
  • ICDM 2010, ICDM 2009, ICDM 2008
  • KDD 2009
  • IDEAL 2008
  • SDM 2008