SRG PhD candidate Madelyn Gatchel bagged this year’s CSE HACKS Spirit Award for exemplifying the CSE Division’s values of honesty, achievement, cooperation, knowledge, and service. She was formally recognized, along with an amazing cohort of many of her fellow graduate students, at the CSE Grad Student Recognition Reception held on April 29 at the […]
On 17 January 2024, Zun Li successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled, “Artificial Intelligence Algorithms for Large Economic and Computer Games.” Thanks to the dissertation committee members: Michael Wellman (chair) Mingyan Liu Yevgeniy Vorobeychik Satinder Singh Baveja Marc Lanctot Congratulations, Dr. Li! We wish you a bright future ahead as an alumnus and ambassador […]
On August 14, 2023, Yongzhao Wang successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled, “Multiagent Learning by Iterative Refinement of Game Models.” Thanks to the dissertation committee members: Michael Wellman (chair) Mingyan Liu Benjamin Fish Tilman Börgers Congratulations, Dr. Wang! We wish you a bright future ahead as an alumnus and ambassador of UMich CSE, AI, and […]
On July 26, 2023, Max Smith successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled, “Efficient Game Solving through Transfer Learning.” Thanks to the dissertation committee members: Michael Wellman (chair) Satinder Singh Baveja Honglak Lee Grant Schoenebeck Congratulations, Dr. Smith! We wish you a bright future ahead as an alumnus and ambassador of UMich CSE, AI, and SRG! […]
On July 17, 2022, Katherine Mayo presented and successfully defended her dissertation proposal titled “A Strategic Analysis of Economic and Technological Changes in Financial Networks Using Agent-Based Modeling.” The dissertation committee comprises: Michael Wellman [chair] Peter Adriaens Atul Prakash Jeffery Zhang Congratulations, Katherine!
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.
