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Papers by topic

This listing is organized by rough topic. If you'd prefer, you can go to a chronological listing. Or, if you're looking for a flavor of my research, here are some representative papers:

  • Adapting to a Market Shock: Optimal Sequential Market-Making
    Sanmay Das and Malik Magdon-Ismail.
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21, 2009, pages 361-368. Also, Supplementary Information.

  • Expert-Mediated Search
    Meenal Chhabra, Sanmay Das, and David Sarne
    Major revision requested at Management Science, November 2011.
    A prior, conference version appeared at AAMAS 2011.

  • A Model for Information Growth in Collective Wisdom Processes
    Sanmay Das and Malik Magdon-Ismail
    To appear in the ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data.
    A prior version appeared as Collective Wisdom: Information Growth in Wikis and Blogs at ACM EC 2010.

  • Learning the Demand Curve in Posted-Price Digital Goods Auctions
    Meenal Chhabra and Sanmay Das
    Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2011. Pages 63-70.
    One of three nominees for the Best Student Paper Award

    • Market-Making, Prediction Markets, Dynamic Pricing, and Market Microstructure

  • Instructor Rating Markets
    Mithun Chakraborty, Sanmay Das, Allen Lavoie, Malik Magdon-Ismail, and Yonatan Naamad
    Workshop on Social Computing and User Generated Content at the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, June 2011
    Also, an abstract will appear in the Proceedings of the Second Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms, and Their Applications, August 2011.

  • Learning the Demand Curve in Posted-Price Digital Goods Auctions
    Meenal Chhabra and Sanmay Das
    Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2011. Pages 63-70.
    One of three nominees for the Best Student Paper Award

  • Comparing Prediction Market Structures, With an Application to Market Making
    Aseem Brahma, Sanmay Das and Malik Magdon-Ismail
    September 2010.

  • Adapting to a Market Shock: Optimal Sequential Market-Making
    Sanmay Das and Malik Magdon-Ismail.
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21, 2009, pages 361-368. Also, Supplementary Information.

  • The Effects of Market-Making on Price Dynamics
    Sanmay Das.
    Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2008. Pages 887-894.

  • Learning to Trade with Insider Information
    Sanmay Das.
    Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on E-Commerce, August 2007.

  • A Learning Market-Maker in the Glosten-Milgrom Model
    Sanmay Das.
    Quantitative Finance, Vol. 5, No. 2, April 2005, pages 169-180.


    • Matching and Search

  • Expert-Mediated Search
    Meenal Chhabra, Sanmay Das, and David Sarne
    Major revision requested at Management Science, November 2011.
    Prior conference version:
    Expert-Mediated Search
    Meenal Chhabra, Sanmay Das, and David Sarne
    Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2011. Pages 415-422.

    Also subsumes the following non-archival workshop paper:
    Bundling in Expert-Mediated Search
    Meenal Chhabra, Sanmay Das, and David Sarne
    Thirteenth International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce, May 2011.

  • When is it Important to Know You've Been Rejected? A Search Problem with Probabilistic Appearance of Offers
    Sanmay Das and John N. Tsitsiklis.
    Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2010. Vol. 74, Pages 104-122.

  • Matching, Cardinal Utility, and Social Welfare
    Elliot Anshelevich and Sanmay Das
    SIGecom Exchanges, Volume 9.1. 2010.

  • Anarchy, Stability, and Utopia: Creating Better Matchings
    Elliot Anshelevich, Sanmay Das, and Yonatan Naamad.
    To appear in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.
    Prior conference version:
    Anarchy, Stability, and Utopia: Creating Better Matchings
    Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory, 2009. Pages 159-170.

  • Two-sided Bandits and the Dating Market
    Sanmay Das and Emir Kamenica.
    Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 947-952. Edinburgh, UK, August 2005.


    • Collective Intelligence and Social Media

  • Pushing Your Point of View: Behavioral Measures of Manipulation in Wikipedia
    Sanmay Das, Allen Lavoie, and Malik Magdon-Ismail
    Working paper, November 2011.

  • A Model for Information Growth in Collective Wisdom Processes
    Sanmay Das and Malik Magdon-Ismail
    To appear in the ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data.
    A prior, somewhat different conference version is:
    Collective Wisdom: Information Growth in Wikis and Blogs
    Sanmay Das and Malik Magdon-Ismail
    Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2010. Pages 231-240.


    • Machine Learning and Data Mining

  • Near-Optimal Target Learning With Stochastic Binary Signals
    Mithun Chakraborty, Sanmay Das, and Malik Magdon-Ismail
    Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2011.

  • Identifying Relevant Data for a Biological Database: Handcrafted Rules Versus Machine Learning
    Aditya Sehgal, Sanmay Das, Keith Noto, Milton H. Saier, Jr. and Charles Elkan.
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2011. Vol 8, No. 3, Pages 851-857.

  • Predictive State Representations for Grounding Human-Robot Communication
    Eric Meisner, Sanmay Das, Volkan Isler, Jeffrey Trinkle, Selma Sabanovic and Linnda R. Caporael.
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2010. Pages 178-185.

  • Finding Transport Proteins in a General Protein Database
    Sanmay Das, Milton H. Saier, Jr. and Charles Elkan.
    Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (Proc. PKDD 2007), September 2007.

  • Filters, Wrappers and a Boosting Based Hybrid for Feature Selection
    Sanmay Das.
    Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Machine Learning, pages 74--81, Williams College, June 2001.


    • Multi-Agent Systems and Social Simulation

  • A Hybrid Model for Disease Spread and an Application to the SARS Pandemic
    Teruhiko Yoneyama, Sanmay Das and Mukkai Krishnamoorthy
    Accepted to the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2011.

  • Market Mechanisms for Value of Information Driven Resource Allocation in Sensor Networks
    Boleslaw K. Szymanski, S. Yousaf Shah, Sahin Cem Geyik, Sanmay Das, Meenal Chhabra, and Petros Zerfos
    Workshop Proceedings of the Ninth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, pages 20--25, March 2011.

  • On Agent-Based Modeling of Complex Systems: Learning and Bounded Rationality
    Sanmay Das.
    September 2006.

  • The Influence of Social Norms and Social Consciousness on Intention Reconciliation,
    Barbara Grosz, Sarit Kraus, David Sullivan and Sanmay Das.
    Artificial Intelligence, 142:2, November 2002, pages 147-177 (Multi-Agent Systems Special Issue).

  • Learning and Decision-Making for Intention Reconciliation
    Sanmay Das, Barbara Grosz and Avi Pfeffer.
    In Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Bologna, July 2002.


    • Miscellaneous

  • The Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms, and Their Applications
  • Sanmay Das and Michael Ostrovsky
    SIGecom Exchanges, Volume 7.3. 2008.

  • Dealers, Insiders and Bandits: Learning and its Effects on Market Outcomes
    Sanmay Das.
    Ph.D. thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2006.

  • Intelligent Market-Making in Artificial Financial Markets
    Sanmay Das
    S.M. thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003.

  • Optimal Behavior in Group Environments
    Sanmay Das
    Senior honors thesis, Harvard University, 2001.