Samid (Sam) Hoda Click to send email (turn off pop-up blocker) Tepper School of Business Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Office: Tepper (GSIA) 128 Office Number: 412-268-4673

Research

Interests: Integer Programming, Polyhedral Combinatorics, Convex Analysis and Optimization, Equilibrium computation, Scheduling

Summary: I am a third year graduate student in the ACO program at Carnegie Mellon University. I am based in the Operations Research department located in the Tepper School of Business

Seminars and Conferences

Current:

• OR Seminars
• ACO seminars

Upcoming/Recent:

• Enterprise-Wide Optimization - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 11-12, 2008

Previous:

• ICCOPT II & MOPTA2007 - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, August 13-16, 2007
• AAAI 2007 - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 22-26, 2007
• INFORMS 2006 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 5-8, 2006

Papers

• Andrew Gilpin, Samid Hoda, Javier Peña, Tuomas Sandholm. 2007. Gradient-based algorithms for finding Nash equilibria in extensive form games. 3rd International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE 2007), San Diego, CA.
• Samid Hoda, Andrew Gilpin, and Javier Peña. 2007. A gradient-based approach for computing Nash equilibria of large sequential games. Available on Optimization Online.

Talks

• Samid Hoda, Ben Peterson, John Hooker, Iiro Harjunkoski, Latife Genc Kaya, Optimal Crane Scheduling , Enterprise-Wide Optimization Annual Meeting 2008, Pittsburgh, PA
• (Presented by Andrew Gilpin) Andrew Gilpin, Samid Hoda, Javier Peña, Tuomas Sandholm, Gradient-based Algorithms for Finding Nash Equilibria in Extensive Form Games , INFORMS Annual Meeting 2007, Seattle, WA
• (Presented by Ben Peterson) Ben Peterson, Samid Hoda, John Hooker, Iiro Harjunkoski, Latife Genc Kaya, Optimal Crane Scheduling , INFORMS Annual Meeting 2007, Seattle, WA
• Samid Hoda, Andrew Gilpin, Javier Peña, Tuomas Sandholm, Computational Experience with a First-order Algorithm for Computing Nash Equilibria in Sequential Games , ICCOPT II/MOPTA 07, Hamilton, ON
• (Presented by Javier Peña), Samid Hoda, Andrew Gilpin, Tuomas Sandholm, Smoothing techniques for Nash equilibria computation of sequential games , ICCOPT II/MOPTA 07, Hamilton, ON
• Samid Hoda, Andrew Gilpin, Javier Peña, Tuomas Sandholm, Computing Equilibria Arising From Large Sequential Games, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2006, Pittsburgh, PA
• (Presented by David Levine) Tuomas Sandholm, David Levine, Subhash Suri, Yuri Smirnov, Rob Shields, Tom Kuhn, Samid Hoda, Andrew Fuqua, Bryan Bailey, Andrew Gilpin, David Parkes, Real-World Combinatorial Procurement Auctions, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2004, Denver, CO
• (Presented by David Levine) Tuomas Sandholm, Bryan Bailey, Andrew Fuqua, Andrew Gilpin, John Heitman, Samid Hoda, Tom Kuhn, David Levine, Rob Shields, Yuri Smirnov, Subhash Suri, Industrial Procurement Auctions with Expressive Competition, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2003, Atlanta, GA

Teaching

• TA for Optimization for Risk Management and Hedging (46-730) (Spring 2007)
• TA for Operations Research Techniques for Consultants (45-860) (Mini IV 2007)
• TA for Probability and Decision Making (45-730) (Mini I 2006, Mini III 2007, Mini III 2008)
• TA for Sequencing and Scheduling (45-866) (Mini IV, 2008)