
Ramesh Johari
Professor of Management Science and Engineering and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering
Web page: http://web.stanford.edu/people/rjohari
Bio
Johari is broadly interested in the design, economic analysis, and operation of online platforms, as well as statistical and machine learning techniques used by these platforms (such as search, recommendation, matching, and pricing algorithms).
Academic Appointments
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Professor, Management Science and Engineering
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Professor (By courtesy), Electrical Engineering
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Affiliate, Precourt Institute for Energy
Honors & Awards
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George E. Nicholson Student Paper Competition (First Place), INFORMS (2003)
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George M. Sprowls Doctoral Dissertation Award, MIT EECS (2004)
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Doctoral Dissertation Award (Honorable Mention), ACM (2004)
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Okawa Foundation Research Grant, Okawa Foundation (2005)
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Telecommunications Dissertation Award, INFORMS (2006)
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CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (2007)
Professional Education
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PhD, MIT (2004)
2019-20 Courses
- Fundamentals of Data Science: Prediction, Inference, Causality
MS&E 226 (Aut) -
Independent Studies (19)
- Advanced Reading and Research
CS 499 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Advanced Reading and Research
CS 499P (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Computer Laboratory
CS 393 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Curricular Practical Training
CS 390A (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Curricular Practical Training
CS 390B (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Curricular Practical Training
CS 390C (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Directed Reading and Research
MS&E 408 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Directed Reading in Environment and Resources
ENVRES 398 (Aut) - Independent Database Project
CS 395 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Independent Project
CS 399 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Independent Project
CS 399P (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Independent Work
CS 199 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Independent Work
CS 199P (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Part-time Curricular Practical Training
CS 390D (Aut, Win, Spr) - Ph.D. Research
CME 400 (Aut, Win, Sum) - Practical Training
MCS 198 (Sum) - Programming Service Project
CS 192 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Senior Project
CS 191 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Writing Intensive Senior Project (WIM)
CS 191W (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Advanced Reading and Research
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Prior Year Courses
2018-19 Courses
- "Small" Data: Prediction, Inference, Causality
MS&E 226 (Aut) - Free and Incentivized Exploration in Online Learning
MS&E 326 (Spr)
2017-18 Courses
- "Small" Data
MS&E 226 (Aut) - Advanced Topics in Game Theory with Engineering Applications
MS&E 326 (Spr)
2016-17 Courses
- "Small" Data
MS&E 226 (Aut) - Senior Project
MS&E 108 (Win) - Stochastic Modeling
MS&E 221 (Win)
- "Small" Data: Prediction, Inference, Causality
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Kristen M. Altenburger, Imanol Arrieta Ibarra, Nikhil Garg, Neal Jean, Wanyi Li, Xiuyuan Lu, Faidra Monachou, Stephen Ragain -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Tum Chaturapruek, Hannah Li -
Orals Evaluator
Tum Chaturapruek -
Master's Program Advisor
Donny Flynn, Simon Hagege, Luca Schroeder, Yue Wang, Haoran Xu -
Undergraduate Major Advisor
Emily Guthrie -
Doctoral (Program)
Bar Light, Chenru Liu -
Postdoctoral Research Mentor
Mohammad Rasouli
All Publications
- Economic Modeling in Networking: A Primer. Foundations and Trends in Networking NOW Publishers.. 2013: 1
- Resource management with semiautonomous users. To appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 2012
- Mean field equilibria of multiarmed bandit games. 2012
- Information and the value of execution guarantees. 2012
- Mean field equilibria of dynamic auctions with learning. 2011
- Heavy traffic approximation of equilibria in resource sharing games. 2011
- Committing bandits. 2011
- How many tiers? Pricing in the Internet transit market. 2011
- Mean field analysis for large population stochastic games. 2010
- Mean field equilibrium in dynamic games with complementarities. 2010
- Information aggregation in smooth markets. 2010
- Congestible services and network effects. 2010
- Information theoretic operating regimes of large wireless networks. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 2010; 1 (56): 427-437
- Network formation: bilateral contracting and myopic dynamics. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 2009; 8 (54): 1765-1778
- A comparison of bilateral and multilateral exchanges for peer-assisted content distribution. 2008
- Local myopic dynamics in network formation games. 2008
- Peer-assisted content distribution with prices. 2008
- Oblivious equilibrium for general stochastic games with unbounded costs. 2008
- Oblivious equilibrium for general stochastic games with concave costs. 2008
- A comparison of bilateral and multilateral exchanges for peer-assisted content distribution. 2008
- Prices are right: aligning incentives for peer-assisted content distribution. 2008
- Efficiency loss and the design of scalable resource allocation mechanisms. Algorithmic Game Theory edited by Nisan, N., Roughgarden, T., Tardos, E. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, United Kingdom.. 2007: 543–567
- Revenue management for content delivery. 2007
- Network formation: bilateral contracting and myopic dynamics. 2007
- Oblivious equilibrium for general stochastic games with many players. 2007
- A peer-to-peer system as an exchange economy. 2006
- Positive externalities and optimal scale. 2006
- Efficiency loss in a network resource allocation game: the case of elastic supply. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 2005; 11 (50): 1712-1724
- Communication requirements of VCG-like mechanisms in convex environments. 2005
- Network resource allocation and a congestion game: the single link case. 2003
- End-to-end congestion control for the Internet: delays and stability. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2001; 6 (9): 818-832