{"id":9031,"date":"2017-03-01T16:21:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T21:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=9031"},"modified":"2026-04-13T09:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:05:23","slug":"john-w-byers","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/profiles\/john-w-byers\/","title":{"rendered":"John W. Byers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/~byers\/\"><\/a><\/b><\/h3>\n<h3><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/~byers\/\">Homepage<\/a><\/b><br \/>\n<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/~byers\/cv.pdf\">CV<\/a><\/b><\/h3>\n<h3>Bio<\/h3>\n<p>Professor John W. Byers joined the BU Department of Computer Science in 1999. His research interests center on data-analytic and algorithmic challenges in two disciplines: the science of computer networking (e.g., transport protocols, network architecture) and the empirical study of Internet platforms (such as Airbnb, Groupon, and Yelp). His work strikes a balance between theoretical foundations and rigorous data-driven experimentation.<\/p>\n<p>John is Founding Chief Scientist and a member of the Board of Directors at Cogo Labs, a start-up based in Cambridge, MA, where he has had an executive role since the company\u2019s founding (as Adverplex, Inc.) in 2005. Cogo leverages a proprietary technology platform for online advertising, algorithmic marketing, and data science analytics to power their incubated portfolio companies from inception to profitability and beyond.<\/p>\n<h3>Selected Publications<\/h3>\n<p>Georgios Zervas, Davide Proserpio and John W. Byers.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/fac\/byers\/pubs\/airbnb-ms.pdf\">The Rise of the Sharing Economy: Estimating the Impact of Airbnb on the Hotel Industry<\/a>.\u00a0To appear in the Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), 2017<\/p>\n<p>John W. Byers, Michael Mitzenmacher and Georgios Zervas.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/ft_gateway.cfm?id=2229034&amp;ftid=1223310&amp;dwn=1&amp;CFID=282481305&amp;CFTOKEN=39222608\">The Groupon Effect on Yelp Ratings: A Root Cause Analysis<\/a>. In Proc. of the 13th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, Valencia, Spain, June 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Dongsu Han, Ashok Anand, Fahad Dogar, Boyan Li, Hyeontaek Lim, Michel Machado, Arvind Mukundan, Wenfei Wu, Aditya Akella, David Andersen, John Byers, Srinivasan Seshan and Peter Steenkiste.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/system\/files\/conference\/nsdi12\/nsdi12-final13.pdf\">XIA: Efficient Support for Evolvable Internetworking<\/a>. In Proc. of the 9th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI \u201912), San Jose, CA, April 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1690,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9047,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9031\/revisions\/9047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}