Positions

2011-  Senior Research Scientist, International Computer Science Institute and Lecturer, UC Berkeley,  (https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsi/people/ejf)

2001-2010  Associate Professor of Operations Research, Cornell University

1995-2000 Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics, Rutgers University

1994-1995 Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences, Duke University

Education

1993 PhD Operations Research, UC Berkeley

1991 MA Physics, UC Berkeley

1985 AB Physics, Princeton University

Teaching:

UC Berkeley: Undergraduate: Combinatorics and Discrete Probability (CS 174),  Networks (CS 194)  Integer Optimization (IEOR 169), Engineering Economics (ENG 120)

Cornell:  Undergraduate: Game Theory, Applications of Operations Research, Information Technology; Graduate: Game Theory,

Mathematical Cost Allocation. 

Rutgers: Undergraduate: Intermediate Microeconomics, Operations Research, Honors

Seminar. Graduate: Microeconomic Theory, Advanced

Topics in Microeconomic Theory

Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2-uoevgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

• Bayesian image analysis in Fourier space, J Kornak, K Young, E Friedman, Journal of the American Statistical Association (Forthcoming 2025)

• Can't be late: optimizing spot instance savings under deadlines,  Zhanghao Wu, Wei-Lin Chiang, Ziming Mao, Zongheng Yang, Eric Friedman, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (2024)

• Stochastic geometric network models for groups of functional and structural connectomes, EJ Friedman, AS Landsberg, JP Owen, YO Li, P Mukherjee, NeuroImage 101, 473-484 (2014)

• Construction and analysis of random networks with explosive percolation, EJ Friedman, AS Landsberg, Physical review letters 103 (25), 255701, (2009)

• Reputation systems, P Resnick, K Kuwabara, R Zeckhauser, E Friedman, Communications of the ACM 43 (12), 45-48, (2000)

• Corporate governance in the Asian financial crisis, S Johnson, P Boone, A Breach, E Friedman, Journal of financial Economics 58 (1-2), 141-186, (2000)

Research Grants

• National Science Foundation: “ICES: Evaluating Price Mechanisms for Clouds” PI (withS. Shenker), 2012-2016 ($375,000)

• National Science Foundation: CSR: Medium: Limiting Manipulation in Data Centers and the Cloud” co-PI (with A. Ghodsi and I. Stoica), 2012-2016 ($135,109)

• National Institutes of Health, “Robust Localized Measures for Brain Networks” 2011-2016 PI ($875,000)

• National Science Foundation: “CDI Type II: Complex Dynamics in the Internet: A Computational Analytic Approach,” PI (with S. Strogatz and A.Tang), 2008-2013 ($1,499,000)

• National Science Foundation: “ITR: Networks of Strategic Agents: Theory and Algorithms,” co-PI (with J. Halpern, D. Huttenlocher, J. Kleinberg and E. Tardos), 2003-2008 ($2,468,677)

• National Science Foundation: “ITR: Achieving Innovative and Reliable Services in  Unlicensed Spectrum,” PI, 2002-2005 ($1,230,860)

• National Science Foundation: “Learning and the Design of the Internet,” co-PI (with S. Shenker), 1998-2003 ($357,000)

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Contact: ejf 111 icsi222@333gmail.com (remove all numbers from this!)