Madelyn Gatchel finished as runner-up at the 22nd Annual CSE Graduate Honors Competition held on Nov 10, 2025, where she delivered a 15 min presentation on her research topic “Learning and Reasoning about Parameterized Families of Games.” She was selected as the representative of the AI lab for the event after a mini-competition held during AI Tea on […]
PhD student Gabe Smithline passed the CSE prelim exam, based on his directed study project titled “Measuring Competition and Cooperation in LLM Bargaining: An Empirical Meta-Game Analysis.” Congratulations, Gabe!
PhD student Christ Mascioli passed the CSE prelim exam, based on his directed study project titled “PyMarketSim: A High-Performance Multi-Agent Environment for Deep Reinforcement Learning in Financial Markets.” Congratulations, Chris!
The paper titled “The Effect of Liquidity on the Spoofability of Financial Markets,” led by Anri Gu, an undergraduate researcher with SRG, and coauthored by our recent PhD alum Yongzhao Wang, current PhD student Chris Mascioli, assistant research scientist Mithun Chakraborty, and Michael Wellman just won the Best Paper Award at 5th ACM International Conference […]
On 21 October 2024, Christine Konicki successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled, “Exploiting Tree Structure in Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis for Extensive-Form Games.” Thanks to the dissertation committee members: Michael Wellman (chair) Mithun Chakraborty Greg Bodwin Grant Schoenebeck Congratulations, Dr. Konicki! We wish you a bright future ahead as an alumna and ambassador of UMich CSE, […]
On 15 May 2024, Katherine Mayo successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled, “A Strategic Agent-Based Analysis of Economic and Technological Changes in Financial Networks.” Thanks to the dissertation committee members: Michael Wellman (chair) Peter Adriaens Atul Prakash Jeffery Zhang Congratulations, Dr. Mayo! We wish you a bright future ahead as an alumna and ambassador of […]
The paper titled “A Meta-Game Evaluation Framework for Deep Multiagent Reinforcement Learning,” authored by Zun Li, while he was a PhD student with SRG, and Michael Wellman just won the best paper award at the 16th Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA) Workshop held on May 16-17 as part of the 23nd International Conference on Autonomous […]
