Education

• Brown University—Providence, RI 

  • Ph.D., Computer Science (Defended 8 August 2013)

  • Sc.M., Computer Science, 2009

• University of Minnesota—Minneapolis, MN

  • B.S. Computer Science, 2006 (Summa Cum Laude)

Employment

• Economachina LLC/LTD—Edinburgh, UK
  Director, September 2023 - present

• Virtual Chair—Edinburgh, UK
  CTO / CEO, Dec 2021 - August 2023

• Meta (Facebook) Core Data Science—Menlo Park, CA / London, UK
  Research Scientist / Research Manager, Nov 2013 - Nov 2021

• Google—New York, NY
  Software Engineering Intern, DoubleClick for Publishers team, Summer 2012

• Yahoo! Research—New York, NY
  Research Intern, Economics and Social Systems, 2010

• The Search Agency—East Greenwich, RI
  Research Intern, 2009-2010

Volunteer Work

• Data Scientists Network (DSN)—Lagos, Nigeria (Remote)
  Chief Technical Advisor, Dec 2021 - present
  Advisory Board Member, May 2020 - present

Honors and Awards

• Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Award Recipient: Computational Advertising, 2012. 

• Facebook Academics: Fellowship Finalist, 2012.

• Trading Agent Competition (TAC) for Ad Auctions Finalist, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012.

• TAC Scholarship, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011.

• TAC: Supply Chain Management Finalist, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010. • Rosh Foundation Fellowship, 2007.

• Lando Scholarship, 2006.

• TAC Best Poster Award, May 2006.

• Dean’s List, Fall 2002, Fall 2004, Spring 2004.

Invited Talks

• Global Challenges in Mechanism Design, Data Science Africa 2019 Accra, Ghana.

• Mechanism Design Tutorial, Data Science Africa 2019 Accra, Ghana.

• Mechanism Design for Social Good, Data Science Africa 2019 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

• Mechanism Design Tutorial, Data Science Africa 2019 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

• Democratizing Mechanism Design Education and Research in Sub-Saharan Africa. Marketplace Innovation Workshop, June 2019.

• Mechanism Design Tutorial, Data Science Africa 2018 Abuja, Nigeria.

• Eric Sodomka, Sebastien Lahaie, and Dustin Hilliard. A Hierarchical Model for Value Estimation in

• Sponsored Search. INFORMS 2012 Annual Meeting, October 2012.

• Amy Greenwald, Jiacui Li, and Eric Sodomka. Approximating Equilibria in Sequential Auctions with Incomplete Information and Multi-Unit Demand. INFORMS 2012 Annual Meeting, October 2012.

• Eric Sodomka, Jordan Berg, Amy Greenwald, Wolf Ketter, Yixin Lu, and Eric van Heck. Autonomous Trading in Simulated Dutch Flower Auctions. INFORMS 2011 Annual Meeting. November 2011.

Professional Service

• Area Chair, EC 2022.

• General Chair, EC 2021.

• PC Member, EC 2021.

• Selection Committee Member, Highlights Beyond EC, EC 2021.

• Area Chair, AAAI 2021.

• Cochair, Special Track on AI for Social Impact, AAAI 2021.

• PC Member, EAAMO 2021.

• PC Member, SAGT 2021.

• PC Member, AAMAS 2021.

• SPC Member (Economics, Monetization, and Online Markets), TheWebConf 2021. 

• Workshop Co-Organizer, GCEC 2020.

• Senior Program Committee, EC 2020.

• Global Outreach Chair, EC 2020.

• Cochair, Special Track on AI for Social Impact, AAAI 2020.

• PC Member, AAAI 2020.

• PC Member, MLEconPolicy 2020.

• PC Member, MD4SG 2020.

• PC Member (Economics, Monetization, and Online Markets), The WebConf 2020. 

• PC Member, KDD Workshop on Humanitarian Mapping 2020.

• PC Member, IJCAI 2020.

• SPC Member, Applied Modeling Track, EC 2019.

• SPC Member, AAAI 2019.

• PC Member, MD4SG 2019.

• PC Member, MDML 2019.

• PC Member, AIES 2019.

• PC Member, IJCAI 2019.

• PC Member, EC 2018.

• PC Member, MD4SG 2018.

• PC Member, AAAI 2017.

• PC Member, AAMAS 2017.

• PC Member (Internet Monetization and Online Markets), WWW 2017.

• PC Member, IJCAI 2017.

• Reviewer, EC 2016.

• PC Member, AAAI 2016.

• PC Member, WINE 2016.

• PC Member, AdAuction 2016.

• PC Member, SAGT 2016.

• PC Member, IJCAI 2016.

• Reviewer, NIPS 2015.

• Reviewer, EC 2014.

• PC Member, AAAI 2014.

• PC Member (Poster Track), WWW 2014.

• PC Member (Internet Economics Monetization), WWW 2014.

• PC Member, AAMAS 2014.

• PC Member (Internet Monetization and Incentives), WWW 2013.

• Subreviewer, WINE 2012.

• Reviewer, WINE 2012.

• Subreviewer, NESCAI 2010.

• Subreviewer, LFHT 2009.