276 13th St Apt 5D
Brooklyn, NY 11215
phone: +1 (302) 566-5456
email: mizzao@gmail.com
Education
May 2015
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Ph.D., Computer Science (Advisor: Yiling Chen)
Dissertation: Experimental Studies of Human Behavior in Social Computing Systems
May 2012
S.M., Computer Science
May 2009
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
B.S.E., Computer Science, summa cum laude
B.S. in Economics (Wharton School), summa cum laude
GPA: 3.89 / 4.0
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Positions
November 2017—Sep 2019
Research Scientist, CTRL-labs (New York, NY)
Aarhus University
July 2017—November 2017
Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of Management, Aarhus BSS (Aarhus, Denmark)
Microsoft Research
2015—2017
Postdoctoral Researcher, Computational Social Science (New York, NY)
Summer 2013, 2014
Research Intern, Computational Social Science (New York, NY)
Summer 2012
Research Intern, Adaptive Systems and Interaction (Redmond, WA)
Harvard University
2009—2015
Research Assistant, EconCS Group (Cambridge, MA)
Refereed Publications
Andrew Mao, Lili Dworkin, Siddharth Suri, and Duncan J. Watts. Resilient Cooperators Stabilize Long-Run Cooperation in the Finitely Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma. Nature Communications 8:13800, 2017. [ data, source ]
Andrew Mao, Winter A. Mason, Siddharth Suri, and Duncan J. Watts. An Experimental Study of Team Size and Performance on a Complex Task. PLoS ONE 11(4):e0153048, 2016. [ data, source ]
Xi Alice Gao, Andrew Mao, Yiling Chen, and Ryan P. Adams. Trick or Treat: Putting Peer Prediction to the Test. In the 15th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC 2014).
Micah Sherr, Harjot Gill, Taher Aquil Saeed, Andrew Mao, William R. Marczak, Saravana Soundararajan, Wenchao Zhou, Boon Thau Loo, and Matt Blaze. The Design and Implementation of the A3 Application-Aware Anonymity Platform. Elsevier Computer Networks 58:206-227, 2014.
Andrew Mao, Ece Kamar, Yiling Chen, Eric Horvitz, Megan E. Schwamb, Chris J. Lintott, and Arfon M. Smith. Volunteering vs. Work for Pay: Incentives and Tradeoffs in Crowdsourcing. In the 1st Conference on Crowdsourcing and Human Computation (HCOMP 2013).
Andrew Mao, Ece Kamar, and Eric Horvitz. Why Stop Now? Predicting Worker Engagement in Online Crowdsourcing. In the 1st Conference on Crowdsourcing and Human Computation (HCOMP 2013).
Andrew Mao, Ariel D. Procaccia, and Yiling Chen. Better Human Computation Through Principled Voting. In the 27th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2013).
Thomas Pfeiffer, Xi Alice Gao, Andrew Mao, Yiling Chen, and David G. Rand. Adaptive Information Polling and Aggregation. In the 26th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2012).
Micah Sherr, Andrew Mao, William R. Marczak, Wenchao Zhou, Boon Thau Loo, and Matt Blaze. A3: An Extensible Platform for Application-Aware Anonymity. In the 17th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2010).
Workshop Publications
Andrew Mao. Experimental Behavioral Research for Designing Human Computational Systems. In the HCOMP 2014 Doctoral Consortium.
Andrew Mao, Yiling Chen, Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Ariel D. Procaccia, David C. Parkes, and Haoqi Zhang. TurkServer: Enabling Synchronous and Longitudinal Online Experiments. In 4th Workshop on Human Computation (HCOMP 2012).
Tutorials
Neil S. Gaikwad, Sohan Dsouza, Oana Vuculescu, and Andrew Mao. Crowdcomputing and Citizen Science for Large-scale Experiments. At the 3nd International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2017). [ slides ]
Andrew Mao. Experiments of Collective Social Behavior in the Virtual Lab. At the 2nd International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2016). [ slides, video ]
Andrew Mao and Sid Suri. How, When, and Why to Conduct Online Behavioral Experiments. At the 9th Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE 2013). [ slides ]
Selected Talks
Studying Teamwork and Cooperation in the Virtual Lab [ slides ]
May 9, 2017
Carnegie Mellon University AI Lunch and Seminar, Pittsburgh, PA
April 26, 2017
Brown University CSCI 1951k Guest Lecture, Providence RI
February 16, 2017
University of Pennsylvania Computational Linguistics Lunch, Philadelphia, PA
February 8, 2017
Harvard Business School Digital Initiative Seminar, Boston, MA [ audio, interview ]
January 31, 2017
GESIS Computational Social Science Seminar, Cologne, Germany
January 19, 2017
Aarhus University School of Business INEIS Seminar, Aarhus, Denmark
October 2016
SIGAI Career Network Conference, Boston, MA
October 2016
Northeastern University Network Science Institute, Boston, MA
October 2016
Cornell Tech Connected Media Lunch, New York, NY
September 2016
NYU Stern Information Systems Seminar, New York, NY
July 2016
Keynote at International Conference on Crowd Science and Engineering, Vancouver, BC
July 2016
University of Washington HCDE Seminar, Seattle, WA
April 2016
University of Pennsylvania CS Theory Seminar, Philadelphia, PA
April 2016
NYU Polytechnic, Brooklyn, NY
March 2016
Stanford HCI Seminar, Stanford, CA
January 2016
MIT Media Lab Seminar, Cambridge, MA
December 2015
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
Long-run Cooperation in the Finitely Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma [ slides ]
March 9, 2017
Making Better Use of the Crowd, Microsoft Research Week, Redmond, WA
July 2016
Workshop on Human-Agent Interaction Design and Models, New York, NY
June 2016
International Conference on Computational Social Science, Evanston, IL
June 2016
Conference on Collective Intelligence, New York, NY
TurkServer: Toward a More Powerful and Flexible Virtual Lab
April 2016
Crowdsourcing and Behavioral Experiments, Montreal, Canada
Toward a Quantitative Understanding of Teamwork and Collective Intelligence
March 2016
Intelligent Systems Supporting Distributed Teamwork, Stanford, CA
Team Size, Organization, and Performance on Complex Tasks
November 2016
Summit on Human Problem Solving and AI, Sandbjerg, Denmark
November 2015
Digital Revolutions Workshop, Bergen, Norway
Exploring and Visualizing Dynamic Behavioral Data
September 2015
D3.js Meetup, New York, NY
Making an Impact with Meteor in Computer and Social Science
September 2014
Meteor Devshop, San Francisco, CA [ video ]
Designing Better Systems Through Capturing Human Behavior
February 2014
Microsoft Research, New York, NY
Program Committees
2017
International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2)
2017
Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP)
2017
Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)
2017
World Wide Web Conference (WWW)
2016
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
2016
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)
2016
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
2015—2016
ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC)
2014—2016
Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Online Behavioral Experiments (COBE)
Teaching Experience
Harvard University
Spring 2013
Teaching Fellow, CS 181 (Machine Learning)
Fall 2011
Teaching Fellow, AM 221 (Advanced Optimization)
Spring 2011
Teaching Fellow, AM 121 (Linear Optimization)
University of Pennsylvania
Spring 2009
Teaching Assistant, CIS 320 (Algorithms)
Spring 2008
Teaching Assistant, CIS 320 (Algorithms)
Awards
June 2016
IJCAI Outstanding PC Member Nomination
August 2011
Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Award
Spring 2011
Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching
2010
Goldman Sachs Graduate Student Fellowship in Engineering and Applied Sciences
2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09
University of Pennsylvania Dean’s List
inducted 2009
Eta Kappa Nu EE/CS Honor Society
inducted 2009
Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society
inducted 2008
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
Other Interests
2016—present
New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble
2009—2014
Dudley House Orchestra (Concertmaster, Sept. 2009—Dec. 2010)
Avid skier, violinist, table tennis player, and gadget lover
Culinary enthusiast: see My Quest for the Perfect Roast Chicken
Scuba diving: PADI open water certified