mingyu at cs dot duke dot edu

N303 LSRC (North Building)

Phone: (919)660-6515

Fax: (919)660-6519

Department of Computer Science

Duke University

Levine Science Research Center

450 Research Drive

Durham, NC 27708, USA

Last Update: Sept. 10th 2009

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Intersection of Computer Science and Economics, Mechanism Design, Redistribution in Auctions, Prediction Markets, False-name-proof Mechanisms

My advisor is Vincent Conitzer

Fourth year Ph.D. student in Computer Science, Duke University

M.S. in Applied Mathematics, minor in Computer Science, University of Florida 2006

B.S. in Mathematics, Chukechen Interdisciplinary Honor College, Zhejiang University China 2004

Mingyu Guo and Vincent Conitzer. Worst-Case Optimal Redistribution of VCG Payments in Multi-Unit Auctions.
In Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 69-98, September 2009. DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2008.06.007.
Outstanding Research Project Award 2007-2008, Department of Computer Science, Duke University.

Mingyu Guo and Vincent Conitzer. Optimal-in-Expectation Redistribution Mechanisms, to appear in Artificial Intelligence.

Mingyu Guo, Vincent Conitzer, and Daniel Reeves. Competitive Repeated Allocation Without Payments.
To appear in Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE-2009), Rome, Italy.

Peng Shi, Vincent Conitzer, and Mingyu Guo. Prediction Mechanisms That Do Not Incentivize Undesirable Actions.
To appear in Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE-2009), Rome, Italy.

Mingyu Guo and David Pennock. Combinatorial Prediction Markets for Event Hierarchies.
In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-09), Budapest, Hungary.

Krzysztof Apt, Vincent Conitzer, Mingyu Guo and Evangelos Markakis. Welfare Undominated Groves Mechanisms.
In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE-2008), Shanghai, China.

Mingyu Guo and Vincent Conitzer. Better Redistribution with Inefficient Allocation in Multi-Unit Auctions with Unit Demand.
In Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-08), Chicago, IL, USA.

Mingyu Guo and Vincent Conitzer. Undominated Redistribution Mechanisms.
In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-08), Estoril, Portugal.

Mingyu Guo and Vincent Conitzer. Optimal-in-Expectation Redistribution Mechanisms.
In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-08), Estoril, Portugal.
A working longer version that deals with more general settings.

Mingyu Guo and Vincent Conitzer. Worst-Case Optimal Redistribution of VCG Payments.
In Proceedings of the Eighth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-07), San Diego, CA, USA.

Optimal VCG Redistribution Mechanisms. Joint work with Vincent Conitzer.
GAMES 2008 Third World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Evanston, Illinois, USA, 2008.

Improved VCG Redistribution Mechanisms. Joint work with Vincent Conitzer.
The 18th International Conference on Game Theory, Stony Brook, NY, USA, 2007.

Worst-Case Optimal Redistribution of VCG Payments in Multi-Unit Auctions. Joint work with Vincent Conitzer.
DIMACS Workshop on the Boundary between Economic Theory and Computer Science, New Jersey, 2007.

Improved VCG Redistribution Mechanisms. Joint work with Vincent Conitzer.
Mini-Workshop on Selected Topics in E-Commerce, North Carolina State University, 2007.

AAMAS-08 Program committee

Also reviewed papers for ACM EC, AAAI, AMEC, SIGecom, WINE, ICALP.

Research Intern, Yahoo! Research, New York, Summer 2008

Teaching Assistant, CPS196.2 Computational Economics, Fall 2007

Teaching Assistant, CPS250 Numerical Analysis, Spring 2007