Okke Schrijvers

Okke Schrijvers

Sr Manager, Science at Uber

Okke Schrijvers

I’m a Sr Manager in the Science org at Uber leading a team that develops state-of-the-art algorithms and ML models for Uber’s core ads delivery flow and autobidder solutions. Previously I was at Meta, Central Applied Science, leading the market algorithms and experimentation teams. For an (outdated) overview of my technical work see this research overview on challenges in online ad marketplaces or my PhD thesis.

News

  • 2026-06-15. I’ve joined Uber as a Sr Manager in the Science org, leading the Ads Delivery and Optimization team.
  • 2025-04-02. I’m on the organizing committee of the EC’25 workshop on Frontiers in Online Advertising to be held on July 10 at Stanford.
  • 2025-03-12 Our paper “Interference Among First-Price Pacing Equilibria” was accepted at ICLR’25.
  • 2025-02-01. I served as an Econ Area Chair for TheWebConf’25.

Short Bio

Okke Schrijvers is a Sr Manager in the Science org at Uber, leading the Ads Delivery and Optimization team. Previously he spend 9 years at the Central Applied Science team at Meta, where he led Experimentation and Market Algorithms. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2017 where his advisor was Tim Roughgarden and he served as co-Editor in Chief of ACM’s student publication XRDS for 2 years.

Okke received his Master’s Degree in Computer Science with honors from Eindhoven University of Technology in 2012 and his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science with honors from Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen in 2008. Before getting his Master’s degree, Okke was a video game programmer and worked on the PS3 game EyePet, an augmented reality game that sold over 1 million copies.