Patrick Hummel

Patrick Hummel

Partner Director of Economics

Microsoft Cloud

PhD: Stanford GSB, 2010

Cloud Economics Pricing Auction Design

About

Patrick Hummel leads economics for Microsoft Cloud, working on pricing, capacity planning, and market design. Previously at Yahoo and Google, he worked on ad auction design with Preston McAfee.

Key Work

2018

When Does Machine Learning Succeed in Predicting Winners?

Working Paper

ML for sports prediction markets

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