Thomas Sandholm

Biography

Thomas is a researcher in the Social Computing Laboratory, focused on harvesting the collective intelligence of groups of people to optimize the interaction between users and information. Thomas holds a PhD in computer and systems sciences from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. His thesis was on Statistical Methods for Computational Markets. Prior to joining HP Labs Thomas worked as an object technology consultant at IONA Technologies and as a scientific programmer at Argonne National Labs.

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Research interests

I am interested in crowdsourcing, mobility, location-based services and market design. My current project is HP Gloe, a cloud service designed to make it easy to discover and recommend local Web content on mobile devices.

My previous projects include:

• Tycoon, a market-based resource allocation system for Grids and distributed clusters.
• Globus, an open source software toolkit used for building Grid systems and applications.
• SGAS, a national Grid accounting system for the Swedish HPC community.

Awards

• CCGrid SCALE 2008: Finalist in International Scalable Computing Challenge
• HPDC 2007: Best Paper for A Statistical Approach to Risk Mitigation in Computational Markets
• Argonne Pacesetter Award 2003
• IONA President's Club 2001
• Erasmus and DAAD scholarships 1996 

Publications

Selection:

• CCGrid'08: Admission Control in a Computational Market
• HPDC'07: A Statistical Approach to Risk Mitigation in Computational Markets
• HPDC'06: Market-Based Resource Allocation using Price Prediction in a High Performance Computing Grid for Scientific Applications
• ICSOC'04: An OGSA-based Accounting System for Allocation Enforcement Across HPC centers
• CAiSE'99: Design of Object Caching in a CORBA OTM System

Professional activities

• Organizer: IwS'11
• Tutorial Chair: ICSOC'10
• PC Member: ACC-CLOUD'11, ACM EC'10, EC Web'09, ICSE Cloud'09
• Reviewer: DAPD'10 (Journal), COMAD'10, FGCS'09 (Journal), SIGMETRICS'08