Anna V. Osepayshvili

July 2009

CONTACT INFORMATION

	E-mail:
	WWW: http://annaosp.com/

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Incentive-centered design (ICD) of information, communication and collaboration systems;
Design of computer-assisted market mechanisms;
Design of trading agents;
Empirical game theory;
Computational/algorithmic game theory;
Energy markets, smart-grid technologies in particular;
Experimental economics, learning in games in particular;
Pricing of information goods.

EDUCATION

	PhD, Information		Jan. 2009		University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
					School of Information
	MA, Economics		Sep. 2006		University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
					Department of Economics
	BS, Economics		June 2002		Moscow State Linguistics University, Moscow, Russia
	cum laude				Department of World Economics

PHD DISSERTATION

Three Papers on Strategic Decision Making in Digitally Mediated Markets, 2009. Thesis committee: Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason (chair), Yan Chen, Michael P. Wellman, and Rahul Sami.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA                     May 2009-present
Visiting Scholar, Management Science and Engineering Department,
Research in learning in games, computational game theory, and electricity markets.

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI                 September 2002-December 2008
Graduate Student Research Assistant, School of Information,
Worked on dissertation-related projects.

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI                 April-August 2008
Research Assistant to Program Manager,
Research Experience for Undergraduates Site, School of Information.
Supervised REU participants and their graduate-student mentors, organized research seminars, and provided IT support for the participants.

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI                 January-April 2005, 2006, and 2007
Graduate Student Instructor, School of Information,
Taught a Master's foundation class integrating microeconomic theory, behavioral economics, decision theory, and psychology.

SKILLS ACQUIRED THROUGH ACADEMIC TRAINING

Computer simulation, numeric estimation, and agent-based modelling;
Mathematical and game-theoretic modelling;
Designing and conducting human-subject experiments;
Quantitative/statistical analysis and data visualization;
Qualitative analysis;
Social-network analysis and visualization;
Academic instruction.

PUBLICATIONS

Bidding Strategies for Simultaneous Ascending Auctions, Michael P. Wellman, Anna Osepayshvili, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, and Daniel M. Reeves, The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, Vol. 8, No. 1, Article 27, December 2008.

Self-Confirming Price Prediction for Bidding in Simultaneous Ascending Auctions, Anna V. Osepayshvili, Michael P. Wellman, Daniel M. Reeves, and Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, In Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2005), July 2005.

Price Prediction Strategies for Market-Based Scheduling, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Anna V. Osepayshvili, Daniel M. Reeves and Micheal P. Wellman, In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-2004), June 2004.

Exploring Bidding Strategies for Market-Based Scheduling, Daniel M. Reeves, Michael P. Wellman, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, and Anna V. Osepayshvili, Decision Support Systems, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 67-85, March 2005.

WORKING PAPERS

Learning Bayesian Nash Equilibrium: An Experimental Study, joint work with Yan Chen.

Competition Between Firms that Bundle Information Goods, joint work with Scott A. Fay and Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason.

UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS

A Networks Approach to Understanding Shilling on EBay, joint work with Tapan Khopkar, supervised by Lada Adamic. Final project paper for the course Networks: Theory and Application, August 2007.

Network Externalities: An Experimental Study, supervised by Yan Chen. Final project paper for the course Experimental Methods, December 2004.

PRESENTATIONS

Learning Bayesian Nash Equilibrium: An Experimental Study, presentation of joint work with Yan Chen, The FIRST series of invited talks from SI graduate students, School of Information, University of Michigan, April 2008.

Learning Bayesian Nash Equilibrium: An Experimental Study, presentation of joint work with Yan Chen, STIET Research Workshop, Wayne State University, November 2007.

Augmenting Strategic Decisions of Human Participants in Distributed Resource Allocation Mechanisms, The 2006 i-Conference Doctoral Colloquium, University of Michigan, October 2006.

Self-Confirming Price Prediction in Simultaneous Ascending Auctions, poster presentation of joint work with Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Daniel M. Reeves and Michael P. Wellman, The 2006 NYU/CeDER Summer Workshop on the Economics of Information Technology, New York University, June 2006.

Demand Reduction in Simultaneous Ascending Auctions Selling Homogeneous Goods, presentation of joint work with Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Daniel M. Reeves and Michael P. Wellman, STIET Research Workshop, University of Michigan, May 2006.

Price Prediction Strategies for Market-Based Scheduling, presentation of joint work with Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Daniel M. Reeves and Michael P. Wellman, STIET Research Workshop, University of Michigan, October 2003.

Foreign Investment Projects in Russia, Anna Osepayshvili. Presented at the Workshop on Reforms in Russia and Management Problems, Moscow State Linguistics University, Moscow, 2001.

COMPUTER/ PROGRAMMING SKILLS

Unix/Linux and Windows OS programming (C++, Perl, Shell);
Symbolic and numeric mathematical programming (Mathematica, Matlab);
Statistical programming (Stata, R);
Experimental-economics programming (zTree);
Data-analysis and visualization tools for networks (Guess, basic level);
Agent-based programmable modelling (NetLogo, basic level);
Web programming (HTML, basic level).

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Besides English:
- Russian, native;
- French, intermediate (5-year course sequence at the MSLU and a semester at the UM);
- German, basic (2-year course sequence at the MSLU).

GRANTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS

2008 Rackham Spring/Summer Research Grant, joint with Yan Chen, April 2008.
School of Information Departmental Fellowship, Fall 2002-Fall 2004, Fall 2007.
The SI Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award, May 2006.
Achievement of Excellence Award, MSLU Economics Association, September 2000.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Reviewer for The Journal of Media Economics, 2009.
Reviewer for European Journal of Operational Research, 2007.
Reviewer for ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2007.
Reviewer for Information Sciences, 2006.
Reviewer for Parallel Computing, 2006.
Reviewer for The Journal of Electronic Publishing, 2005.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Moscow State Linguistics University Student Economics Association, Moscow, Russia, Chair (September 1999 - May 2002).

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