Nima Haghpanah's Homepage

I have moved to MIT.

About Me

My name is Nima Haghpanah (نيما حق پناه). I am a fifth year PhD student at Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at Northwestern University. I am a member of EconCS group. I work under supervision of Jason Hartline.

I am graduating this year. If you are hiring, take a look at my resume and contact me.

Research Interests

mechanism design, market design
algorithms, approximation, combinatorial optimization
algorithmic game theory
network design, social networks, diffusion of technologies, social aspects of the Internet

Publications

Reverse Mechanism Design

Nima Haghpanah, Jason Hartline.
In preparation.

Exchange Market Mechanisms without Money

Zeinab Abbassi, Nima Haghpanah, Vahab Mirrokni.
In preparation.

Optimal Auctions for Correlated Bidders with Sampling

Hu Fu, Nima Haghpanah, Jason Hartline, Robert Kleinberg.
To appear in the 15th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce EC'14.

The Simple Economics of Approximately Optimal Auctions

Saeed Alaei, Hu Fu, Nima Haghpanah, Jason Hartline.
Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science FOCS '13.

Revenue Maximization with Non-excludable Goods

MohammadHossein Bateni, Nima Haghpanah, Balasubramanian Sivan, and Morteza Zadimoghaddam.
Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Web and Internet Economics WINE'13.

Bayesian Optimal Auctions via Multi- to Single-agent Reduction

Saeed Alaei, Hu Fu, Nima Haghpanah, Jason Hartline, Azarakhsh Malekian.
Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce EC'12.

Optimal Auctions with Positive Network Externalities

Nima Haghpanah, Nicole Immorlica, Vahab Mirrokni, Kamesh Munagala.
ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation TEAC 1, no. 2 (2013): 13.
Conference version in proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce EC'11.

Optimal Iterative Pricing over Social Networks

Hessamedin Akhlaghpour, Mohammad Ghodsi, Nima Haghpanah, Hamid Mahini, Vahab Mirrokni, Afshin Nikzad.
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Internet & Network Economics WINE'10.

Equilibrium Pricing with Positive Externalities

Nima Anari, Shayan Ehsani, Mohammad Ghodsi, Nima Haghpanah, Nicole Immorlica, Hamid Mahini, Vahab Mirrokni.
Journal version Theoretical Computer Science TCS, Volume 476, 11 March 2013, Pages 1-15.
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Internet & Network Economics WINE'10.

Contact

If you would like to reach me, here is my contact information.

Office: 3-227 Ford Building, Evanston Campus, Northwestern University
email: nima dot haghpanah at gmail dot com

Visit my brother Babak's webpage too.