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!
On 27 April 2021, Max Smith presented and successfully defended his dissertation proposal titled “On Efficient Deep Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Through Transfer Learning”. The dissertation committee comprises: Michael Wellman [chair] Satinder Singh Baveja Honglak Lee Grant Schoenebeck Congratulations, Max!
Katherine Mayo passed the CSE prelim exam, based on her directed study project: A Strategic Analysis of Portfolio Compression. Congratulations, Katherine!
On Dec 21, 2020, Xintong Wang successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled, “Computational Modeling and Design of Financial Markets: Towards Manipulation-Resistant and Expressive Markets.” Congratulations, Dr. Wang! We wish you a bright future ahead as an alumna and ambassador of UMich CSE, AI, and SRG! Thanks to the dissertation committee members: Satinder Singh Uday Rajan […]
Megan Shearer is one of the graduate student recipients of the first annual CSE Service Award for Excellence in Climate, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. The awardees for the 2019-20 cycle were officially recognized by Prof. Westley Weimer at the 17th Annual CSE Graduate Honors Competition held virtually on Nov 11, 2020. Congratulations, Megan!
