Topic Expertise
- Health-Care Analytics: medical claims negotiations, medical debt recovery, medical adherence risk modeling
- Auction Design: combinatorial auctions, online-advertisting auctions
- Bandwidth on Demand
- Work Systems Design
- Multi-Agent Systems Simulation and Mission Operations
- Fraud detection in financial statements
- Online Advertising: search-behavior conversion scoring, click-through-rate estimation, behavioral-targeting, Large-scale data mining (Map/Reduce framework)
Professional Experience
- Analytics :: World Golf Tour :: Head of Analytics :: web analytics - SEO - data warehousing - business intelligence - EC2
- Research and Development :: AdBrite Inc. :: Senior Statistician/Scientist :: Large-scale performance-driven online advertising - behavioral targeting - web analytics - keyword auction optimization - next-generation advertising risk modeling - Hadoop
- Market Driven Research :: FICO :: Analytic Scientist :: Health-Care Analytics, Search Engine Marketing, Analytic Tools Design, Fraud Detection, Debt Recovery, Risk Modeling
- Center for Advanced Research :: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP :: Senior Contract Researcher :: Stephen Bay :: Fraud risk assessments in financial statements.
- Center for Studies in Higher Education :: UC Berkeley :: GSR :: Diane Harley :: Transaction Log Analysis and Survey Analysis - Digital Resources Study.
- Center for Document Engineering :: UC Berkeley :: GSR :: Bob Glushko :: Identity management - Roles Project.
- Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science :: USRA :: Visiting Student :: Maarten Sierhuis :: Mobile Agents Project - multi-agent architecture - Agent-Based Simulations.
- Aravo Solutions :: Director of Research :: Management Team :: Data cleansing - System design - Market analytics - User studies.
- UCB-Fujitsu Technology Labs Collaboration :: Collaborator :: Combinatorial auction design for bandwidth trading
- UCB-NetExchange Collaboration :: GSR :: Pravin Varaiya :: Combinatorial auction design
- IBM Research :: Co-Op :: Jakka Sairamesh :: Combinatorial auction design
- Program for Research on the Information Economy :: University of Michigan :: GSR :: Jeff MacKie-Mason :: Domain name auctions - Multiagent digital library design
- School of Public Policy :: University of Michigan :: GSR :: Lawrence Mohr :: Multidimensional impact analysis of federal funding on higher education.
- Department of Economics :: University of Michigan :: USR :: David Roth :: Industrial Organization topics - design for course in industrial regulation.
CONSULTING ENGAGEMENTS:
- Private :: Quantitative Consultant :: Health care analytics
- Infostride Inc. :: Advisor :: Educational technology
- Aravo Solutions Inc. :: Advisor :: Analytics for process optimization
- Splitthedifference Inc. :: Research Consultant :: Analytics on negotiations
- P4 Technologies :: Advisor :: Early stage startup
- Privacy Guardian :: Advisor :: Early stage startup
- PUBLICATIONS:
Refereed Journals:
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Kaskiris, Charis, Jain, Rahul, Rajagopal, Ram, and Pravin Varaiya (2006) “Combinatorial Auction Bandwidth Trading; An Experimental Study” in Experiments in Economic Sciences: New Approaches to Solving Real-world Problems, Springer.
Conference Proceedings - Position Papers - Workshop Papers:
- Kaskiris, Charis, Yusuf Butun, Rahul Jain (2006) "An Experimental Analysis of a Combinatorial Market Mechanism for Bandwidth Trading" 1st IEEE International Workshop on Bandwidth on Demand, San Francisco, CA.
- Diane Harley, Jonathan Henke, Shannon Lawrence, Ian Miller, Irene Percialli and David Nasatir, with contributions by Charis Kaskiris and Cara Bautista, (2006) “Use and Users of Digital Resources: A Focus on Undergraduate Education in the Humanities and Social Sciences”, Digital Resources Study Final Report, Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley.
- Fetscherin, Marc., Kaskiris, Charis, Wallenberg, Fredrik, "Gaming or Sharing at LAN-Parties: What is going on?" in: Paolo Nesi and Kia Ng and Jaime Delgado (Ed.), Proceedings of the First International Conference On Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-Channel Distribution, Florence: IEEE Computer Society Press, November 30 - December 2, 2005, P. 179-186. [pdf]
- Kaskiris, Charis. "The essentials: What are the fundamental building blocks of the field of information?" i-Conference position paper, September 2005. [pdf]
- Sierhuis, M., Clancey, W. J., Alena, R. L., Berrios, D., Shum, S. B., Dowding, J., Graham, J., Hoof, R. v., Kaskiris, C., Rupert, S., & Tyree, K. S. (2005). NASA's Mobile Agents Architecture: A Multi-Agent Workflow and Communication System for Planetary Exploration. International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS) 2005, Munchen, Germany.
- Kaskiris, Charis, Sierhuis, Maarten, Clancey, William J., Hoof, Ron van. “Mobile Agents: A Ubiquitous Multi-Agent System for Human-Robotic Planetary Exploration” 2nd International Symposium on Systems & Human Science, San Francisco 2005. [local]
- Kaskiris, Charis, Jain, Rahul, Rajagopal, Ram and Varaiya, Pravin. “Combinatorial Auction Design for Bandwidth Trading: An Experimental Study” International Conference Experiments in Economic Sciences, Okayama and Kyoto, Japan , 2004. [pdf]
- Clancey, William J.; Sierhuis, Maarten; Alena, Richard; Crawford, Seku; Dowding, Jim; Graham, Jeff; Kaskiris, Charis; Tyree, K S. and Hoof, Ron van. "The Mobile Agents Integrated Field Test: Mars Dessert Research Station April 2003." The 17 th International FLAIRS Conference, St. Augustine, FL 2004. [pdf]
- Clancey, William J.; Sierhuis, Maarten; Alena, Richard; Crawford, Seku; Dowding, Jim; Graham, Jeff; Kaskiris, Charis; Tyree, K S. and Hoof, Ron van. " Mobile Agents: A Distributed Voice-Commanded Sensory and Robotic System for Surface Eva Assistance." 9th ASCE Aerospace Division International Conference, Houston, TX 2004. [pdf]
- Kaskiris, Charis. "Socially-Informed Privacy-Enhancing Solutions: Economic Privacy and the Negotiated Privacy Boundary," Workshop on Socially Informed Design of Privacy-enhancing Solutions in Ubiquitous Computing, Ubicomp. Seattle, WA, 2003. [local][site]
- Clancey, William J.; Sierhuis, Maarten; Kaskiris, Charis and Hoof, Ron van. "Brahms Mobile Agents: Architecture and Field Tests," AAAI Fall Symposium. North Falmouth, MA, 2002, 25-29.
- Clancey, William J.; Sierhuis, Maarten; Kaskiris, Charis and Hoof, Ron van. "Advantages of Brahms for Specifying and Implementing a Multiagent Human-Robotic Exploration System," The 16th International FLAIRS Conference. St. Augustine, FL, 2003. [pdf]
Work In Progress:
- "A Survey of Stastical Methods for Financial Statement Fraud Detection" (with Stephen Bay, Markus Anderle, Krishna Kumaraswamy, and David Steier)
- "An Empirical Investigation of Present-Biased Preferences" (with Hai Che and Teck-Hua Ho)
Theses:
- “Essays in Behavioral Economic Engineering”, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley :: PhD dissertation [in progress]
- “Negotiated Discounts and Time Preferences: A Non-parametric Approach”, Dept of Statistics, Univerisy of California, Berkeley :: MA thesis [in progress].
Technical Reports:
- Kaskiris, Charis, Sierhuis, Maarten. “The Brahms Java Activities Tutorial”, preliminary version, May 2005.
- Damer, Bruce; Sierhuis, Maarten; Kaskiris, Charis; Hoof, Ron Van; Campbell, Bruce; Rasmussen, Dave; Neilson, Merryn; Gold, Stuart and Brandt, Galen. Proposal 000104, "Brahms VE: A Collaborative Virtual Environment for Mission Operations, Planning and Scheduling," Digital Space Inc., 2001.
- Kaskiris, Charis and Maarten Sierhuis (2001) Brahms TM01-0007 "STTR VRE/FMARS Demonstration Model" - Version 0.45 Draft ( 29 November 2001)
- Smith, Calvin, Klemperer-Johnson, Sonia, Liggett, Emily, Kaskiris Charis “ ROLES Project Final Report” (Spring 2002)
- Kaskiris, Charis & Maarten Sierhuis (2001) Brahms TM01-0008 "Mobile Agents: Distributed Human-Robotic EVA System for Surface Operations: Scenario and Field Test Design" - Version 0.3 Draft (20 December 2001)
Posters:
- "Behavioral Economic Engineering" FORUMUSA 2006 (selected on a competitive basis) [not attended]
- "NASA's Mobile Agents Architecture" AAMAS 2005 Maarten Sierhuis, William J. Clancey, Richard L. Alena, Dan Berrios, Simon Buckingham Shum, John Dowding, Jeffrey Graham, Ron van Hoof, Charis Kaskiris, Kim S. Tyree [not attended]
Inventions:
- Varaiya, Pravin, Rahul Jain, Charis Kaskiris, Jun Shu, Ram Rajagopal, Nisha Pillai "System and Method for Conducting Combinatorial Exchanges" Patent Application 11/389,558 March 23, 2006.
- Damer, Bruce, Maarten Sierhuis, Charis Kaskiris, Ron Van Hoof "Interface between Brahms and the OWorld 3D API: Brahms VE OWorld Exporter and JavaScript Writer", Provisional Statement of Invention, NASA Ames Research Center (2001).
Presentations:
- Center for Advanced Research, PwC, Brown Bag Series – "Behavioral Economic Engineering" San Jose, CA :: Sept. 12, 2006
- School of Information Friday Information Seminar – "Behavioral Economic Engineering: An Emprical Investigation of Time Preferences" :: April 21, 2006.
- Fair Isaac Corporation – "Negotiated Discounts and Time Preferences" San Rafael, CA :: January 2006.
- School of Information Friday Information Seminar – "Report on the iSchool Summit" (with Anna Lee Saxanian) UC Berkeley:: October 21, 2005
- iConference Panel Discussant – “Foundations of Information Science” Penn State University :: September 29, 2005.
- Fujitsu Technology Labs – “SeBiDA – An Auction Based System for Bandwidth Trading” (with Rahul Jain & Yusuf Butun) :: September 8th, 2005.
- 2nd International Symposium on Systems and Human Science – “Mobile Agents: A Ubiquitous Multi-Agent System for Human-Robotic Planetary Exploration”, San Francisco, CA :: 2005.
- UbiComp Privacy Workshop – "Socially-Informed Privacy-Enhancing Solutions: Economic Privacy and the Negotiated Privacy Boundary", Seattle, WA :: 2003.
Public Press Interviews:
Software:
- Kaskiris, Charis and Yusuf Butun (2005). Experimental Economics Platform for Human-Agent Experiments
- Kaskiris, Charis. (2005). Math and Randomization External Java Activities for the Brahms Environment. [integration of the COLT random library in Brahms]
- Kaskiris, Charis, Ram Rajagopal, Nisha Pilai. (2004). An Environment for Combinatorial Auction Experiments, EECS, UC Berkeley.
Research Support Acknowledgement:
- Harley, Diane, Jonathan Henke, Alison Head, Ian Miller, David Nasatir, Xi Sheng, Jing Guo (2004). “The Use of Digital Resources in the Humanities and Social Science Undergraduate Education: First Year Report,” Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley.
- Mohr, Lawrence. (1999). “ The impact profile approach to policy merit. The case of research grants and the university”. Evaluation Review. 23(2):212-49.
Tutorials:
- Alessandro Acquisti, Maarten Sierhuis, and Chin Seah "Modeling and Simulating Work Practice with the Brahms Multi-agent Environment,". Tutorial at the Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS 2005). Universal City, CA, May 2005. (Tutorial contributor. Tutorial presenters: Maarten Sierhuis and Chin Seah.)
ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Invitations:
Technical Program Committee:
Reviewer:
- XXVIII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancuver, BC, Canada [July 2006]
- iConference, Pensylvania State University, [September 2005]
- XXVII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society , Stresa, Italy [July 2005]
- BAA NASA [FY 2005] (confidential)
- SBIR ARC NASA [FY 2004] (confidential)
UC Berkeley Academic Senate Commitees:
- E-Berkeley Steering Committee 2002-04
- e-architecture working group on enterprise roles and application authorization 2003.
- Educational Technology Committee 2001 | Committee on Computing and Communications 1999.
- SIMS Doctoral Committee, Student Representative 2005 | SIMS Doctoral Student Chair, 1998/99.
Professional Organizations:
- American Statistical Association
- American Economic Association
- American Computing Machinery
- American Society for Information Science
TEACHING:
- University of California, SIMS (Spring 2005) IS290-3 Agent-based Modeling and Simulation of Organizations and Work Practice
- Jointly taught with Dr. Maarten Sierhuis.
- University of Michigan, PPIA Summer Program (Summer 1998)
- Summer Program Graduate Instructor: Introductory Economics; Intermediate Microeconomics; Trigonometry; Calculus.
Jointly taught with Carl P. Simon and Erik Hurst
- University of Michigan, School of Public Policy | Department of Economics (Winter 1996 | 1997)
- Graduate Student Instructor: SPP 571 | Econ 571 Applied Econometrics at the Graduate Level
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