Background:

Academic: I joined the BU Department of Computer Science in 1999 after completing my Ph.D. at UC Berkeley. My research interests are broadly focused on algorithmic and economic aspects of e-commerce, networking, and large-scale data management, striking a balance between theoretical foundations and rigorous data-driven experimentation.

Entrepreneurial: I am Chief Scientist and a member of the Board of Directors at Cogo Labs, a start-up based in Cambridge, MA, where I've had an executive role since the company's founding (as Adverplex, Inc.) in 2005. Cogo leverages a proprietary technology platform for online advertising, algorithmic marketing, and data analytics to guide incubated portfolio companies from inception to profitability and beyond.

News Updates

• 11/16/12: Thanks to the 180 of you who joined us here at BU for the 13th ACM Internet Measurement Conference!

• 7/6/12: Our most recent research on Groupon and Yelp was highlighted in a piece on NPR's Morning Edition.
  See also: [Huffington Post article on our study (4/11/12)], [Prior media coverage of our work].

• 2/29/12: Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADP) announced its acquisition of Autotegrity, Inc., a company we spun out of Cogo Labs in 2007.
• 11/9/11: Our discovery of a major vulnerability in Yelp.com's mobile site featured in BU Today.
• In 2010, the XIA team from CMU, BU, and U Wisconsin was awarded $7.1M from the NSF under the Future Internet Architectures solicitation.
  We are actively recruiting BU students to conduct research on core XIA technology, applications and deployments of XIA, and to help build the XIA implementation for Linux.
  

Research