Bo Waggoner

Bo Waggoner

Maxwell-Dworkin 219
33 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

I am a Ph.D. student at Harvard University in Computer Science.

Page last modified: 2012-09-03

Contents: Bio, Topics, Publication, Talks, Links

See also: Personal page

Bio

I grew up in Maumee, Ohio. I graduated from Duke University in 2011 with an Interdepartmental Major in Math and Computer Science. I am currently studying with Professor Yiling Chen and the EconCS group at Harvard. My research interests include mathematics, economics, and computer science. I am a runner.

Topics

Here are some examples of problems I'd like to think about in EconCS:

False-name voting: what happens when people "cheat" and cast extra votes, and what can we do about it?
Crowdsourcing and game theory: how do we provide incentives and set up a system for people to accomplish a task together?
Memory, trust, and money: how much "memory" is required for a marketplace to function? What are good ways of compressing that memory? (Examples: fiat money, tokens, reputation scores, trust graphs.)

Publication

Bo Waggoner, Lirong Xia, and Vincent Conitzer. Evaluating Resistance to False-Name Manipulations in Elections. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artifical Intelligence (AAAI-12).
Supplementary: simulation code

Talks

Evaluating Resistance to False-Name Manipulations in Elections. 2012-03-26. Harvard EconCS Group. slides (pptx), slides (pdf), slides and notes (pdf).

Possible misspellings of my name include "Bo Wagner" and "Bo Wagoner".