John Chuang

Associate Professor
School of Information
University of California at Berkeley

My three-sentence bio, usually outdated cv, and the back of my business card (in chinese).

Selected Recent Papers*
(Full publication list)

Secure or Insure? A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Information Security Games
J. Grossklags, N. Christin, J. Chuang. Proceedings of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008), April 2008.

Modeling the Adoption of New Network Architectures
D. Joseph, N. Shetty, J. Chuang, I. Stoica. ACM CoNEXT, Dec 2007.

On the Optimality and Interconnection of Valiant Load-Balancing Networks
B. Babaioff, J. Chuang. IEEE INFOCOM, May 2007. (PPT)

Hidden-Action in Network Routing
M. Feldman, J. Chuang, I. Stoica, S. Shenker. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, August 2007.
Conference version published at ACM E-Commerce Conference (EC'05), June 2005.

Improving Transparency: Extracting, Visualising and Analysing Corporate Relationships from SEC 10-K Documents
M. Gebbie, K. Norlen, G. Lucas, J. Chuang. International Journal on Technology, Policy and Management, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 15-31, 2007.

Network Monitors and Contracting Systems: Competition and Innovation
P. Laskowski, J. Chuang. ACM SIGCOMM, September 2006.

Service Differentiated Peer Selection: An Incentive Mechanism for Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming
A. Habib, J. Chuang. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 8, No. 3, June 2006.

Free-Riding and Whitewashing in Peer-to-Peer Systems
M. Feldman, C. Papadimitriou, J. Chuang, I. Stoica. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 24, No. 5, May 2006.
Workshop version published at ACM SIGCOMM'04 Workshop on Practice and Theory of Incentives in Networked Systems (PINS), August 2004.

Presentations

In Search of Homo Swappus: Evolution of Cooperation in Peer-to-Peer Systems
Keynote presentation, 5th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, September 2005.

Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems
Academia Sinica 2004 Summer Institute on Peer-to-Peer Computing, August 2004.

Research Projects (Present and Past)

p2pecon: economics of peer-to-peer systems
100x100: clean-slate approach to network architecture design (research activities at Berkeley)
Denali: scalable network services
EVA: extraction, visualization and analysis of corporate social networks
stor-serv: service differentiated caching and replication
miscellaneous: various "one-paper projects"

Courses

IS250 Computer-based Communications Networks and Systems (Fall 2007)
IS206 Distributed Computing Applications and Infrastructure (Fall 2007)
IS296A-3 Economics-Informed Network Design (Fall 2005)

Conferences and Professional Activities

Steering Committee, 2008 Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation (NetEcon 2008)
Program Committee, 9th ACM E-Commerce Conference (EC 2008)
Program Committee, 17th International WWW Conference (WWW 2008)
Program Committee, 7th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS 2008)
Program Committee, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2007)
Program Committee, 4th International Workshop on Grid Economics & Business Models (GECON 2007)
Program Committee Co-Chair, 7th ACM E-Commerce Conference (EC 2006)
Program Committee, ACM SIGCOMM Conference (SIGCOMM 2006)

Current and Past Students and Postdocs

Moshe Babaioff (Microsoft Research)
Sonja Buchegger (Deutsche Telekom Labs)
Nicolas Christin (Carnegie Mellon University)
Michal Feldman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Pedro Ferreira (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidad Tecnica de Lisboa)
Jens Grossklags
Ahsan Habib (Siemens TTB)
Melissa Ho
Paul Laskowski

Contact Information

Office: 303A South Hall (directions)
Office hours (Spring 2008): Wednesdays 3-4pm and by appointment.

Voice: 510-642-7253
Fax: 510-642-5814
E-mail: <lastname>@ischool.berkeley.edu

Snail-mail:
School of Information
University of California at Berkeley
102 South Hall #4600
Berkeley, CA 94720-4600

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