CURRICULUM VITAE ET STUDIORUM Sofia Ceppi PERSONAL INFORMATION Name: Sofia Surname: Ceppi Birthdate: March 22, 1983 Birthplace: Mariano Comense (CO), Italy Citizenship: Italian Email soceppi@microsoft.com Address Microsoft Research Cambridge 21 Station Road Cambridge CB1 2PZ UK Webpage www.sofiaceppi.com 1
POSITION AND EDUCATION RECORD OF EMPLOYMENT 09/2013 Postdoc Researcher at Microsoft Research Advisors: Dr. Ian Kash 01/2009 02/2013 Ph.D. Student on Information Engineering at the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione at Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy. 01/2012 12/2012 Visiting Student at Faculty of Physical and Applied Sciences at University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS 2009 2014 Member of the ACM, Association for Computer Machinery: ACM SIGAI, Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence. ACM SIGecom, Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce. EDUCATION 01/2009 02/2013 Ph.D. on Information Engineering at the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione at Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy. Thesis title: Incentive Compatible Revenue Sharing Mechanisms for the Federation of Services. Advisors: Dr. Nicola Gatti, Dr. Enrico H. Gerding. 09/2005 12/2008 MSc in Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy. Thesis title: Research and Characterization of Equilibria in Central Auction Based Wholesale Electricity Markets. Advisor: Dr. Nicola Gatti. 09/2002 09/2005 BSc in Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy. 09/1997 07/2002 Diploma di Maturità Scientifica at Liceo Scientifico Statale Marie Curie, Meda (MI), Italy. SUMMER SCHOOLS 13th Trento Summer School - Intensive course in Market Design: Theory and Pragmatics, 2012. The Google Europe, the Middle East and Africa Scholars Retreat. June, 2011. AWARDS 2012 Winner of Yahoo! 2012 Key Scientific Challenges Program Award. 2011 Finalist of The Google Anita Borg Memorial. 2
2009 Winner of Best Student Paper Award in the Second Starting AI Researchers Symposium (STAIRS) nella Nineth IEEE/WIC/ACM Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT), Milano, Italy. 2009 Winner of a scholarship funded by the Italian Ministry of University for the PhD program in Information Technology at the Politecnico di Milano. TEACHING ACTIVITIES TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS 2009 2012 Teaching Assistant in the course Computer Science Foundations in the undergraduate program in Mechanical Engineering and Energetic Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy. CO-ADVISOR IN THESES F. Trovó. MSc Thesis: Automated Mechanism Design Approach for Federated Search Engines, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, 2011. L. E. Bonetti. MSc Thesis: Revenue Sharing Mechanisms for Federated Sponsored Search Auctions, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, 2011. D. Bacchini. MSc Thesis: Un Approccio di Automated Mechanism Design per Aste di Link Sponsorizzati con Motori di Ricerca Federati, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, 2010. L. E. Bonetti. BSc Thesis: Analisi de Meccanismi d Asta per Advertising su Motori di Ricerca, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, 2009. G. Patrini e M. Rocco. BSc Thesis: Computing Bayes-Nash Equilibria through Support Enumeration Methods in Bayesian Two-Player Strategic-Form Games, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, 2009. SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES WORKSHOP ORGANISER Workshop on Games, Learning, and Market 2014, Cambridge, UK, 2014. Joint Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce and Trading Agent Design and Analysis (AMEC/TADA), Paris, France, 2014. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Assiciation for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference (AAAI), 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2014, 2015. Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC), 2013. Joint Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis and Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (TADA/AMEC), 2012. 3
REVIEW ACTIVITIES International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2013. ACM International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2010, 2011. Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC), 2011. ACM/IEEE Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT), 2009, 2010, 2011. PUBLICATION LIST WORKING PAPERS A1. Y. Bachrach, S. Ceppi, I. Kash, and P. Key. Predicting Online Shopping Behavior Using a Fine- Grained Model of Personality. 2014. A2. S. Ceppi, and I. Kash. Personalized Payments for Storage-as-a-Service. 2014. A3. S. Ceppi, R. Frongillo, and I. Kash. A Characterization of Incentive Compatible Mechanisms with Partial Verification. 2014. PAPERS IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS A1. S. Ceppi, and N. Gatti. An Algorithmic Game Theory Study of Wholesale Electricity Markets based on Central Auction. Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, special issue on Multi-Agent Systems for Energy Management, 17(4): pag. 273 290, 2010. IOS press. PAPERS IN INTERNATIONAL BOOKS B1. S. Ceppi, and N. Gatti. A Study of Central Auction Based Wholesale Electricity Markets. In Agent- Mediated Electronic Commerce, Designing Trading Strategies and Mechanisms for Electronic Markets. David, E.; Gerding, E.; Sarne, D.; Shehory, O. Editors. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2010. PAPERS IN PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES C1. N. Gatti, M. Rocco, S Ceppi, and E.H. Gerding: Mechanism Design for Mobile Geo-Location Advertising. In Proceeding of the 28th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, AAAI, July 2014. C2. Y. Bachrach, S. Ceppi, I.A. Kash, P. Key, and D. Kurokawa: Optimising Trade-offs Among Stakeholders. In Proceeding of the 15th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC). Stanford, CA, USA, June 2014. C3. Y. Bachrach, S. Ceppi, I. Kash, P. Key, F. Radlinski, E. Porat, M. Armstrong, and V. Sharma: Building A Personalized Tourist Attraction Recommender System Using Crowdsourcing. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS). Paris, France, May 2014. (Demo) C4. V. Naroditskiy, S. Ceppi, V. Robu, and N. R. Jennings: Redistribution in Online Mechanisms. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS). Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, May, 2013. 4
C5. S. Ceppi, E. H. Gerding, and N. Gatti: Merging Multiple Information Sources in Federated Sponsored Search Auctions. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS). Valencia, Spain, June, 2012. (Short Paper) C6. M. Brambilla, S. Ceppi, N. Gatti, and E. H. Gerding: A Revenue Sharing Mechanism for Federated Search and Advertising. In Proceedings of the International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW). Lyon, France, April, 2012. (Short Paper) C7. S. Ceppi, N. Gatti, and E. H. Gerding: Mechanism Design for Federated Sponsored Search Auctions. In Proceedings of the 25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). San Francisco, USA, August, 2011. C8. S. Ceppi, N. Gatti, and C. Iuliano: Solving Strategic Bargaining with Arbitrary One-Sided Uncertainty. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS). Taipei, Taiwan, May 2-6, 2011. C9. N. Gatti, F. Panozzo, and S. Ceppi: Computing a Self-Confirming Equilibrium in Two-Player Extensive-Form Games. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS). Taipei, Taiwan, May 2-6, 2011. C10. S. Ceppi, and A. Capone: Mobile Sensing to Suggest Customized Tours to Visitors in Museums. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS). Bardonecchia, Italy, January 26 28, 2011. C11. S. Ceppi, N. Gatti, G. Patrini, and M. Rocco: Local Search Methods for Finding a Nash Equilibrium in Two-Player Games. In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE/WIC/ACM Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT). Toronto, Canada, August 31 September 1-3, 2010. C12. S. Ceppi, N. Gatti, G. Patrini, and R. Rocco: Local Search Techniques for Computing Equilibria in Two-Player General-Sum Strategic-Form Games. In Proceedings of the ACM International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS). Toronto, Canada, May 10-14, 2010. (Short Paper) C13. S. Ceppi, and N. Gatti: An Algorithmic Game Theory Framework for Bilateral Bargaining with Uncertainty. In Proceedings of the ACM International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS). Toronto, Canada, May 10-14, 2010. C14. S. Ceppi, N. Gatti, and N. Basilico: Computing Bayes-Nash Equilibria through Support Enumeration Methods in Bayesian Two-Player Strategic-Form Games. In Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT). Milano, Italy, September 15-18, 2009. C15. N. Basilico, N. Gatti, T. Rossi, S. Ceppi, and F. Amigoni: Extending Algorithms for Mobile Robot Patrolling in the Presence of Adversaries to More Realistic Settings. In Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT). Milano, Italy, September 15-18, 2009. (Best Student Paper Award) PAPERS IN PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS AND SYMPOSIA D1. L. E. Bonetti, S. Ceppi, and N. Gatti: Designing a Revenue Mechanism for Federated Search Engines. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Searching and Integrating New Web Data Sources (VLDS) in the 37th International Conference on Very Large Data Base (VLDB). Seattle, USA, 2 September, 2011. D2. S. Ceppi, N. Gatti, and C. Iuliano: Non Cooperative Bargaining with Arbitrary One Sided Uncertainty. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC) in the ACM International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS). Taipei, Taiwan, May 2, 2011. 5
D3. N. Gatti, F. Panozzo, and S. Ceppi: Mathematical Programming Formulations to Compute Steady States in Two-Player Extensive-Form Games. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Interactive Decision Theory and Game Theory at the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Atlanta, USA, 11 July, 2010. D4. S. Ceppi: Designing Sponsored Search Auctions for Federated Domain-Specific Search Engines. Doctoral Mentoring Symposium in the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi- Agent Systems (AAMAS). Toronto, Canada, May 9, 2010. D5. S. Ceppi, and N. Gatti: An Automated Mechanism Design Approach for Sponsored Search Auctions with Federated Search Engines. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC) in the ACM International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS). Toronto, Canada, May 10, 2010. D6. S. Ceppi, and N. Gatti: A Study of Central Auction Based Wholesale Electricity Markets. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC) in the ACM International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS). Budapest, Hungary, May 12, 2009. TECHNICAL REPORTS E1. S. Ceppi, and N. Gatti. Survey on Sponsored Search Auctions with Externalities. Technical Report N. 2010.36, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione - Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, 2010. E2. S. Ceppi. Mobile Sensing to Suggest Customized Tours to Visitors in Museum. Technical Report N. 2010.29, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione - Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, 2010. 6