Galen Pickard

Contact 450 W 17th St. Voice: (970) HI-GALEN Information New York, NY 10011 E-mail: [email protected]

Employment Google 2013 - 2019 History Senior Software Engineer 2017 - 2019 Technical Product Lead, Google ATAP 2015 - 2016 Software Engineer 2013 - 2014

Data Tactics Corporation 2010 - 2012 Tech Lead, Nexus 7, DARPA Forward Cell Afghanistan 2011 - 2012 Solutions Architect, DARPA Forward Cell Afghanistan 2010 - 2011

MIT Lincoln Laboratory 2006 - 2010 Lincoln Doctoral Scholar, MIT Ph.D. Program 2010 Associate Technical Staff 2006 - 2009

Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science 2010 - indefinite hiatus Advisors: Prof. Whitman Richards, MIT CSAIL and Prof. Sandy Pentland, MIT Media Lab M.Eng., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 2006 Advisor: Prof. Whitman Richards, MIT CSAIL Thesis: The Use of Domain Knowledge in Optimal Information Aggregation S.B., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 2001 - 2005 Minor in Mathematics S.B., Brain and Cognitive Sciences 2001 - 2005 Concentration in Psychology

Awards and Joint Meritorious Unit Award for service while deployed to Afghanistan 2012 Honors Winner, DARPA Network Challenge 2009 Winning team, MIT Mystery Hunt 2003, 2013 Score of 30 on the Putnam Exam; ranked top 300 nationally 2004 U.S. Army Marksmanship Qualification: Rifle Sharpshooter, Pistol Sharpshooter 2011

Journal G. Pickard, W. Pan, I. Rahwan, M. Cebrian, R. Crane, A. Madan, A. Pentland. Time-Critical Social Publications Mobilization. Science. 344(6055): 509512. 2011. doi:10.1126/science.1205869

M. Frank, M. Cebrian, G. Pickard, I. Rahwan. Validating Bayesian truth serum in large-scale online human experiments. PLoS ONE. 12(5): e0177385. 2017. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0177385

K. Krumme, G. Pickard, M. Cebrian, A. Pentland. Quantifying social influence in an online cultural market. PLoS ONE. 7(5): e33785. 2012. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033785

S. Baver, G. Pickard, P. Sollars, G. Pickard. Two types of melanopsin retinal ganglion cell differen- tially innervate the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nucleus and the olivary pretectal nucleus. Eur. J. Neurosci. 27(7): 17631770. 2008. doi:10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06149.x

W. Richards, H.S. Seung, G. Pickard. Neural voting machines. J. Neural Netw. 19(8): 1161-1167. 2006. doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2006.06.006

1 Patents D. Wyatt, R. Bourassa-Denis, A. Fabrikant, T. Khirwadkar, P. Murugesan, G. Pickard, J. Rosen- stock, R. Schonberger, A. Teytelman. Systems and Methods for Generating a User Location History. 2016. US20150271645A1

Conference D. Mandal, M. Leifer, D. Parkes, G. Pickard, V. Shnayder. Peer Prediction with Heterogeneous Proceedings Tasks. NIPS Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Machine Learning 2016.

G. Pickard, R. Khazan, B. Fuller, J. Cooley. DSKE: Dynamic Set Key Encryption. 2012 37th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks.

G. Pickard, I. Rahwan, W. Pan, M. Cebrian, R. Crane, A. Madan, A. Pentland. Time Critical Social Mobilization: The DARPA Network Challenge Winning Strategy. Workshop on Information in Networks 2010.

G. Pickard, K. Krumme, M. Cebrian, A. Pentland. Appeal, Quality, and Availability Predict the Dynamics of an Artificial Cultural Market. International Conference on Network Science 2010.

G. Pickard, R. Khazan, B. Fuller, J. Cooley. A Corpus of Group Dynamics Data from Internet Chatrooms. International Conference on Network Science 2010.

G. Pickard, I. Rahwan, W. Pan, M. Cebrian, R. Crane, A. Madan, A. Pentland. Time Critical Social Mobilization: The DARPA Network Challenge Winning Strategy. NIPS Workshop on Com- putational Social Science 2010.

B. Fuller, R. Khazan, J. Cooley, G. Pickard, D. Utin. ASE: Authenticated Statement Exchange. 2010 Ninth IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications. nca: 155161. 2010. doi:10.1109/NCA.2010.27

J. Cooley, R. Khazan, B. Fuller, G. Pickard. GROK: A Practical System for Securing Group Com- munications. 2010 Ninth IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications. nca: 100107. 2010. doi:10.1109/NCA.2010.20

R. Khazan, J. Cooley, G. Pickard, B. Fuller. GROK Secure Multi-User Chat at RED FLAG 2007-03. Military Communications Conference, 2008. MILCOM: 17. 2008. doi:10.1109/MILCOM.2008.4753316

S. Baver, G. Pickard, G. Pickard, P. Sollars. Two types of melanopsin retinal ganglion cell differen- tially innervate the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nucleus and the olivary pretectal nucleus. 20th Anniversary Meeting of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms. 2008.

G. Pickard, K. Partin. Domain Interactions Regulating AMPA Receptor Desensitization. 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. 2000.

Invited Talks Using Recursive Incentives to Win the DARPA Network Challenge. G. Pickard. USENIX CollSec 2010.

DJ I, Robot: The DJ Killer App. DJ Proxemics (C. Csikszentmihalyi), DJ IA (G. Pickard), DJ Din0b0t (L. Mendel). Cybersonica 2002.

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