research area

Available and Secure Computing Systems

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Current Projects:

Machine Learning for Threat Detection & Tracking

Recent Publications

Clustering with Interactive Feedback. With Nina Balcan. ALT 2008.

Improved Guarantees for Learning via Similarity Functions. With Nina Balcan and Nati Srebro. COLT 2008.

Item Pricing for Revenue Maximization. With Nina Balcan and Yishay Mansour. ACM-EC 2008.

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avrim Blum

avrim Blum is a Professor at the School of Computer Science.

His main research interests are machine learning theory, approximation algorithms, on-line algorithms, and algorithmic game theory.

Professional Background

He is on the Program Committees for FOCS 2008 (Symp. Foundations of Computer Science), ACM-EC 2008 (Electronic Commerce), and COLT 2007 (Conference on Learning Theory), and was recently local organizer for COLT 2006 and FOCS 2005. He also co-organized the 2005 Foundations of Computational Mathematics Workshop on Algorithmic Game Theory and Metric Embeddings. A while back he served as Program Chair for FOCS 2000 and has done some work in AI Planning. He is also affiliated with the Machine Learning department.