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Alex Wood-Doughty
dblp:246/4554
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2022
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Computational finance and economics · 50% Computational social science and digital humanities · 50% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Data mining · 100% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Reinforcement learning · 100% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Computational social science and digital humanities › causal inference
heterogeneous treatment effect |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | The Incentives Platform at Lyft · WSDM 2022 |
Computational finance and economics › mechanism design
incentive design |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | The Incentives Platform at Lyft · WSDM 2022 |
Data mining
causal inference |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | The Incentives Platform at Lyft · WSDM 2022 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
bandit |
0.2 | 1 | 2022 | The Incentives Platform at Lyft · WSDM 2022 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › exploration
exploration-exploitation tradeoff |
0.2 | 1 | 2022 | The Incentives Platform at Lyft · WSDM 2022 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
optimization · 1.7heterogeneous treatment effect · 1.7causal inference · 1.7bandit · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | The Incentives Platform at LyftabstractThe Incentives Platform team at Lyft has developed a platform for applying new methodologies at the intersection of causal inference, machine learning, and reinforcement learning to problems at scale. We utilize heterogeneous treatment effect algorithms to predict how different users (riders, drivers) will respond to a specific treatment (coupon, incentive, message, etc.). We then can apply various optimization algorithms to choose which users get which treatment while using bandit methodologies to balance an explore/exploit trade-off. This platform dramatically increases the degree to which we can customize the user experience and hit business goals while reducing the operational load of doing so. Alex Wood-Doughty, Cameron Bruggeman |
WSDM | 1 |