Publications (5)
From Feasibility to Desirability: Plan, Learn, Adapt (PLA) Framework for Personalized On-Device Itinerary Generation
Himel Dev, Tanmoy Sen, Madhusudan Basak +1
Generating personalized trip itineraries is a complex planning task and involves a tension between hard combinatorial feasibility and soft latent desirability. Classical optimizati…
Profiling US Restaurants from Billions of Payment Card Transactions
Himel Dev, Hossein Hamooni
A payment card (such as debit or credit) is one of the most convenient payment methods for purchasing goods and services. Hundreds of millions of card transactions take place acros…
Hard Rules, Soft Preferences: Bridging Reasoning, Learning, and Optimization for Personalized Packing Checklist Generation
Himel Dev, Madhusudan Basak, Tanmoy Sen +2
Packing for air travel is recurring and error-prone: the checklist must be personal and context-aware, yet feasible under safety rules, item dependencies, and luggage limits. Exist…
Quantifying Voter Biases in Online Platforms: An Instrumental Variable Approach
Himel Dev, Karrie Karahalios, Hari Sundaram
In content-based online platforms, use of aggregate user feedback (say, the sum of votes) is commonplace as the "gold standard" for measuring content quality. Use of vote aggregate…
The Size Conundrum: Why Online Knowledge Markets Can Fail at Scale
Himel Dev, Chase Geigle, Qingtao Hu +2
In this paper, we interpret the community question answering websites on the StackExchange platform as knowledge markets, and analyze how and why these markets can fail at scale. A…