Welcome to the home of the Electronic Marketplaces Lab (EM). We're part of Carnegie Mellon's Computer Science Department.

Broadly speaking, we study how computers impact traditional game theory. In practice, this involves everything from large-scale equilibrium computation to automated negotiation to the design of new economic structures like markets.

For more on our research, please visit our individual home pages.

Team members

Tuomas Sandholm - Professor, Founder and Director

John Dickerson - PhD Student

Sam Ganzfried - PhD Student

Siddhartha Jain - PhD Student

Christian Kroer - PhD Student

Noam Brown - MS Student

Kevin Su - BS Student

Graduated PhD students

Abe Othman (2012) - Co-Founder, stealth startup in the Bay area

Michael Benisch (2011) - Director of AI, Rocket Fuel

Andrew Gilpin (2009) - Director, Princeton-based hedge fund

Vince Conitzer (2006) - Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Economics, Duke University

Kate Larson (2004) - Associate Professor, University of Waterloo

Former postdocs

Pingzhong Tang (2010-12) - Assistant Professor of computer science in Yao's class at Tsinghua University

Felix Brandt (2003-04) - Heisenberg Professor, Technical University of Munich

Alexander Nareyek (2003) - Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore

Paolo Santi (2003) - Senior Researcher, Institute of Informatics and Telematics of the National Research Council

Former sabbatical visitors

Dov Monderer (1999-2000) - Professor, William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Sviatoslav Braynov (1998-2000) - Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Illinois at Springfield

Fernando Tohmé (1996-2000) - Professor, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Departamento de Economía, Bahia Blanca, Argentina