Yongzhao Wang was one of the runners-up from the AI lab in the lead-up to the 19th Annual CSE Graduate Honors Competition. He gave a short presentation on his research titled “Multi-Agent Learning by Iterative Refinement of Game Models” at AI Lunch on October 21, 2022. Congratulations, Yongzhao!
On October 17, 2022, Christine Konicki presented and successfully defended her dissertation proposal titled “A Tree-Exploiting Approach to Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis for Extensive-Form Games.” The dissertation committee comprises: Michael Wellman [chair] Grant Schoenebeck Greg Bodwin Mithun Chakraborty Congratulations, Christine!
Two new graduate students joined SRG in the Fall 2022 term: PhD student Austin Nguyen who got his BA in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley, in 2021, Master’s student Arshdeep Singh who got his BTech+MTech dual degree in Electrical, Electronics, and Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 2018.
On June 27, 2022, Megan Shearer successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled, “Modeling Trading Strategies in Financial Markets with Data, Simulation, and Deep Reinforcement Learning.” Congratulations, Dr. Shearer! We wish you a bright future ahead as an alumna and ambassador of UMich CSE, AI, and SRG! Thanks to the dissertation committee members: Michael Wellman (chair) […]
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!
