Mihaela van der Schaar

Mihaela van der Schaar
Chancellor’s Professor
Primary Area: Signals & Systems

Office: 58-109 Engr. IV
Phone: (310) 825-5843
E-mail:
Research Lab: Data Science and Decisions Lab


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

Selected Publications

M. van der Schaar and S. Zhang, “A Dynamic Model of Certification and Reputation,” *Economic Theory,* Oct. 2014
M. van der Schaar, J. Xu and W. Zame, “Efficient Online Exchange via Fiat Money,” in *Economic Theory*, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 211-248, Oct. 2013
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. Su and M. van der Schaar, “Structural Solutions for Additively Coupled Sum Constrained Games,” in *IEEE Trans. Commun.*, vol. 60, no. 12, pp. 3779-3796, Dec. 2012.
Y. Zhang and M. van der Schaar, “Information Production and Link Formation in Social Computing Systems,” in *IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun**.** – Special issue on Economics of Communication Networks and Systems*, vol. 30, no. 10, pp. 2136-2145, Dec. 2012.
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.
C. Tekin and M. van der Schaar, “RELEAF: An Algorithm for Learning and Exploiting Relevance,” *IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP) – Special Issue on Signal Processing for Big Data,* 2015.
R. Ducasse, D. Turaga, and M. van der Schaar, “Adaptive Topologic Optimization for Large-Scale Stream Mining” *IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Process. (JSTSP)*, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 620-636, June 2010