Patrick Hummel

 


I am a research scientist at Google. Prior to joining Google, I was a Caltech undergraduate from 2002 to 2006, where I graduated first in my undergraduate class with a B.S. in applied and computational mathematics, a B.S. in economics, and an M.S. in chemistry. I then began graduate studies at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2006, and I completed a Ph.D. in economics in 2010. After completing my Ph.D., I then worked as a research scientist in the Microeconomics and Social Systems group at Yahoo! Research for two years. I am also a World Chess Federation Master and a former US National High School Chess Champion, and I previously qualified for the US Chemistry and US Physics Olympiad Teams.

Please follow this link for my page on Google's external research site. For my CV click here.

 

Publications:

  • Hummel P. "Pre-election polling and third party candidates". Social Choice and Welfare (forthcoming)
  • Hummel P. "Candidate strategies in primaries and general elections with candidates of heterogeneous quality". Games and Economic Behavior 78, 1 (2013) 85-102.
  • Ghosh A, Hummel P. "Learning and incentives in user-generated content: multi-armed bandits with endogenous arms". Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS) (2013) 233-246.
  • Hummel P. "Resource allocation when different candidates are stronger on different issues". Journal of Theoretical Politics 25, 1 (2013) 128-149.
  • Hummel P. "Deliberative democracy and electoral competition". Games and Economic Behavior, 75, 2 (2012) 646-667.
  • Ghosh A, Hummel P. "Implemeting optimal outcomes in social computing: a game-theoretic approach". Proceedings of the 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) (2012) 539-548.
  • Hummel P. "Sequential voting in large elections with multiple candidates". Journal of Public Economics, 96, 4 (2012) 341-348.
  • Hummel P. "Deliberation in large juries with diverse preferences". Public Choice, 150, 3 (2012) 595-608.
  • Hummel P. "Pre-election polling and sequential elections". Journal of Theoretical Politics, 23, 4 (2011) 463-479.
  • Hummel P. "Proportional versus winner-take-all electoral vote allocations". Public Choice, 148, 3 (2011) 381-393.
  • Hummel P. "Information aggregation in multicandidate elections under plurality rule and runoff voting". Mathematical Social Sciences, 62, 1 (2011) 1-6.
  • Ghosh A, Hummel P. "A game-theoretic analysis of rank-order mechanisms for user-generated content". Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC) (2011) 189-198.
  • Hummel P. "Abstention and signaling in large repeated elections". Games and Economic Behavior, 72, 2 (2011) 586-593.
  • Hummel P. "Sequential voting when long elections are costly". Economics and Politics, 23, 1 (2011) 36-58.
  • Hummel P. "Flip-flopping from primaries to general elections". Journal of Public Economics, 94, 11 (2010) 1020-1027.
  • Hummel P. "On the nature of equilibria in a Downsian model with candidate valence". Games and Economic Behavior, 70, 2 (2010) 65-103.
  • Hummel P. "Jury theorems with multiple alternatives". Social Choice and Welfare, 34, 1 (2010) 65-103.
  • Hummel P. "Buying supermajorities in a stochastic environment". Public Choice, 141, 3 (2009) 351-369.
  • Hummel P. "Iterative elimination of weakly dominated strategies in binary voting agendas with sequential voting". Social Choice and Welfare, 31, 2 (2008) 257-269.
  • Hummel P, Winkler JR, Gray HB. "Electronic structures of tetragonal nitrido and nitrosyl metal complexes". Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, 119, 1 (2008) 35-38.
  • Hummel P, Gray HB. "Strikingly similar electronic structures of [Mn(N)(CN)5]3- and [Mn(NO)(CN)5]3-". Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 151, 4 (2007) 554-556.
  • Hummel P, Halpern-Manners N, Gray HB. "Electronic excited states of tetracyanonickelate(II)". Inorganic Chemistry, 45, 18 (2006) 7397-7400.
  • Hummel P, Winkler JR, Gray HB. "Electronic structures of trans-dioxometal complexes". Dalton Transactions, 1 (2006) 168-171.
  • Hummel P, Oxgaard J, Goddard WA III, Gray HB. "Ligand field excited states of metal hexacarbonyls". Inorganic Chemistry, 44, 7 (2005) 2454-2458.
  • Hummel P, Vaidehi N, Floriano WB, Hall SE, Goddard WA III. "Test of the Binding Threshold Hypothesis for olfactory receptors: Explanation of the differential binding of ketones to the mouse and human orthologs of olfactory receptor 912-93". Protein Science, 14, 3 (2005) 703-710.
  • Hummel P, Oxgaard J, Goddard WA III, Gray HB. "Ligand field strengths of carbon monoxide and cyanide in octahedral coordination". Journal of Coordination Chemistry, 58, 1 (2005) 41-45.
  • Lee JC, Langen R, Hummel P, Gray HB, Winkler JR. "α-Synuclein structures from fluorescence-energy transfer kinetics: Implications for the role of the protein in Parkinson's disease". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101, 47 (2004) 16466-16471.
  • Hummel P. "On consecutive quadratic non-residues: a conjecture of Issai Schur". Journal of Number Theory, 103, 2 (2003) 257-266.
  • Hummel P. "Solid constructions using ellipses". Pi Mu Epsilon Journal, 11, 8 (2003) 429-435.
  • Hummel P. "Crucial decisions of the second world war". The Concord Review, 12, 1 (2001) 177-202.

 

Video of David Baltimore (former Caltech President and 1975 Nobel Laureate in Medicine) speaking about my undergraduate research.

 

NSF announcement of Ralph Hirschmann (my grandfather) being awarded the National Medal of Science.

 

Last updated April 20, 2013.