Hongyao Ma is a postdoctoral researcher at Uber. She completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science in Harvard SEAS, advised by Prof. David C. Parkes in May 2019. In 2020, she will join the Decision Risk and Operations division at Columbia Business School as an assistant professor. Her research is broadly situated at the intersection of economics, computer science, and operations, and she is particularly interested in designing market-based systems to bring people together in useful ways, in the presence of uncertainty, self-interest, and autonomy. Ma is a recipient of the ACM SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award, the Siebel Scholarship, and the Certificate of Distinction in Teaching at Harvard. She received her M.S. in 2014 at Harvard, and B.E. in 2012 at Xi'an Jiaotong University, both in Electrical Engineering.