John Lin is a second year doctoral student in the School of Information. Before entering the University of Michigan, he received an B.S. in Economics from Caltech and worked there for five years as a research assistant. He worked on implementing auction (one-sided) and market (two-sided) mechanisms for selling and trading goods that exhibit complementary values. John is interested in continuing to explore the area of auction and market design by combining insights from the fields of computer science and economics. He is also exploring the role of social context in shaping people's response to incentives utilizing insights from economics and social psychology