[AI Seminar] AI Seminar: Kevin Leyton-Brown, Apr. 28

Charlotte Yano yano at cs.cmu.edu
Tue Apr 21 11:13:12 EDT 2015


Our next AI Seminar will be Kevin Leyton-Brown, from the University of British Columbia.
The talk will be on April 28th, at 3:30 in 6115.

I will send around another announcement when I have the title and abstract.

He will be available for meetings on the 28th and 29th, please contact Charlotte Yano for availability.


Bio:
Kevin Leyton-Brown is a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia. He holds a PhD and M.Sc. from Stanford University (2003; 2001) and a B.Sc. from McMaster University (1998). He studies the intersection of computer science and microeconomics, addressing computational problems in economic contexts and incentive issues in multiagent systems. He also applies machine learning to the automated design and analysis of algorithms for solving hard computational problems.

He has co-written two books, "Multiagent Systems" and "Essentials of Game Theory," and over 100 peer-refereed technical articles; his work has received over 6,000 citations and an h-index of 33. He is the recipient of a 2014 NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship-previously given to a computer scientist only 10 times since its establishment in 1965-and a 2013 Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize from the Canadian Association of Computer Science. He and his coauthors have received paper awards from JAIR, ACM-EC, AAMAS and LION, and numerous medals for the portfolio-based SAT solver SATzilla at international SAT competitions (2003-12).

He serves as an associate editor for the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ), ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation (ACM-TEAC), and AI Access; serves as an advisory board member for the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR, after serving as associate editor for two 4-year terms), and was program chair for the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (ACM-EC) in 2012. He has co-taught two Coursera courses on "Game Theory" to over half a million students, and has received awards for his teaching at UBC-notably, a 2013/14 Killam Teaching Prize. He split his 2010-11 sabbatical between Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He currently advises Auctionomics, Inc. (and through them, the Federal Communications Commission), Zynga, Inc., and Qudos, Inc. He is a co-founder of Kudu.ug and a new UBC spinoff, Meta-Algorithmic Technologies. In the past, he served as a consultant for Trading Dynamics Inc., Ariba Inc., Cariocas Inc., and was scientific advisor to UBC spinoff Zite Inc. until it was acquired by CNN in 2011.

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~kevinlb/index.html



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