Mihaela van der Schaar

PROFESSOR EMERITUS
COMPUTER SCIENCE
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

58-109 Engr. IV

Email: mihaela@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 825-5843

Websites

Data Science and Decisions Lab

RESEARCH AND INTERESTS

Machine learning and artificial intelligence
Data science for medicine
Stream mining
Big data

NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS

M. van der Schaar and S. Zhang, “A Dynamic Model of Certification and Reputation,” *Economic Theory,* Oct. 2014
M. van der Schaar, J. Xu and W. Zame, “Efficient Online Exchange via Fiat Money,” in *Economic Theory*, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 211-248, Oct. 2013
Y. Xiao and M. van der Schaar, “Socially-Optimal Design of Service Exchange Platforms with Imperfect Monitoring,” ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, vol. 3, no. 4, Jul. 2015.[Link]
M. van der Schaar, Y. Xiao, W. Zame, “Efficient Outcomes in Repeated Games with Limited Monitoring,” Economic Theory, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 1-34, 2015 – Lead article. [Link]
C. Tekin, S. Zhang, and M. van der Schaar, “Distributed Online Learning in Social Recommender Systems,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP), vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 638-652, Aug. 2014. [Link]
Y. Su and M. van der Schaar, “Structural Solutions for Additively Coupled Sum Constrained Games,” in *IEEE Trans. Commun.*, vol. 60, no. 12, pp. 3779-3796, Dec. 2012.
Y. Zhang and M. van der Schaar, “Information Production and Link Formation in Social Computing Systems,” in *IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun**.** – Special issue on Economics of Communication Networks and Systems*, vol. 30, no. 10, pp. 2136-2145, Dec. 2012.
Y. Zhang, J. Park, M. van der Schaar, “Rating Protocols for Online Communities“, *ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation*, vol. 2, no. 1, March 2014.
C. Tekin and M. van der Schaar, “RELEAF: An Algorithm for Learning and Exploiting Relevance,” *IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP) – Special Issue on Signal Processing for Big Data,* 2015.
R. Ducasse, D. Turaga, and M. van der Schaar, “Adaptive Topologic Optimization for Large-Scale Stream Mining” *IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Process. (JSTSP)*, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 620-636, June 2010

EDUCATION

PhD (2001) Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

2011, Gamenets (Game-Theory for Networks) Conference
2011, IEEE Circuits & Systems Society Darlington Award
2011, UCLA Chancellor’s Professor
2011, Editor-in-Chief IEEE Trans. On Multimedia
2011, Distinguished Speaker for IEEE Communications Society
2009, IEEE Fellow
2008, Exploratory Stream Analytics Innovation Award from IBM Research Watson
2008, IBM Faculty Award
2007, Most Cited Paper Award from Elsevier EURASIP
2007, IBM Faculty Award
2006, Best Paper Award from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society
2006, Okawa Foundation Award
2005, IBM Faculty Award
2004, National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award
2002, Philips .Make a Difference. Award for Outstanding Research Contributions to Philips