On 10 May 2022, Yongzhao Wang presented and successfully defended his dissertation proposal titled “Multi-agent Learning by Iterative Refinement of Game Models.” The dissertation committee comprises: Michael Wellman [chair] Tilman Börgers Mingyan Liu Benjamin Fish Congratulations, Yongzhao!
On 27 April 2022, Zun Li presented and successfully defended his dissertation proposal titled “A Modern AI Approach to Strategic Reasoning over Complex Multiagent Systems”. The dissertation committee comprises: Michael Wellman [chair] Mingyan Liu Satinder Singh Baveja Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Washington University in St.Louis Congratulations, Zun!
Max Smith was one of the five finalists at the 18th Annual CSE Graduate Honors Competition held virtually on Nov 10, 2021, where he delivered a short presentation on his research titled “Strategic Knowledge Transfer.” He was selected as the representative of the AI lab for the event after a rigorous internal competition. Congratulations, Max!
SRG recently obtained funding from the Center on Long-term Risk, the research wing of the Effective Altruism Foundation, for a project titled “An Empirical Game-Theoretic Approach to Bargaining Problems” (see project page for further details).
Three new graduate students joined SRG in the Fall 2021 term: PhD student Madelyn Gatchel who just received her BS from Davidson College, and Master’s students Rainier Delarosa and Therese Nkeng each of whom has been awarded a JP Morgan AI Research Master’s Fellowship.
Christine Konicki passed the CSE prelim exam, based on her directed study project titled “Tree-Exploiting Empirical Game Theoretical Analysis for Extensive-Form Games”. Congratulations, Christine!
On June 1 2021, Megan Shearer presented and successfully defended her dissertation proposal titled “Modeling Trading Strategies in Financial Markets with Data, Simulation, and Deep Reinforcement Learning”. The dissertation committee comprises: Michael Wellman [chair] Gabriel Rauterberg Uday Rajan David Fouhey Congratulations, Megan!
