Research and Teaching Interests:
Game theory, network science, social networks, complex systems, machine learning, online learning, stream mining and Big data, medical informatics, networks
Awards and Recognitions
2011
Gamenets (Game-Theory for Networks) Conference
2011
IEEE Circuits & Systems Society Darlington Award
2011
UCLA Chancellor’s Professor
2011
Editor-in-Chief IEEE Trans. On Multimedia
2011
Distinguished Speaker for IEEE Communications Society
2009
IEEE Fellow
2008
Exploratory Stream Analytics Innovation Award from IBM Research Watson
2008
IBM Faculty Award
2007
Most Cited Paper Award from Elsevier EURASIP
2007
IBM Faculty Award
2006
Best Paper Award from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
2006
Okawa Foundation Award
2005
IBM Faculty Award
2004
National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award
2002
Philips .Make a Difference. Award for Outstanding Research Contributions to Philips
Y. Xiao and M. van der Schaar, “Socially-Optimal Design of Service Exchange Platforms with Imperfect Monitoring,” ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, vol. 3, no. 4, Jul. 2015.[Link]
M. van der Schaar, Y. Xiao, W. Zame, “Efficient Outcomes in Repeated Games with Limited Monitoring,” Economic Theory, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 1-34, 2015 – Lead article. [Link]
C. Tekin, S. Zhang, and M. van der Schaar, “Distributed Online Learning in Social Recommender Systems,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP), vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 638-652, Aug. 2014. [Link]
Y. Zhang, J. Park, M. van der Schaar, “Rating Protocols for Online Communities“, *ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation*, vol. 2, no. 1, March 2014.