
Madelyn Gatchel Passes Prelim
Madelyn Gatchel passed the CSE prelim exam, based on her directed study project titled “Learning Parameterized Families of Games”.
Congratulations, Madelyn!

Learning Parameterized Families of Games
M Gatchel and B Wiedenbeck
22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), June 2023 (Forthcoming).
Abstract
To understand the impact of parameters in strategic environments, typical game-theoretic analysis…

Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis for Mean Field Games
Y Wang and MP Wellman
22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), June 2023 (Forthcoming).
Abstract
We present a simulation-based approach for solution of mean field games (MFGs), using the framework…

Yongzhao finishes as CSE Graduate Honors Runner-up
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…

Christine Konicki defends dissertation proposal
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:
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Machine Learning, Algorithmic Trading, and Manipulation
Columbia Blue Sky Blog post based on the report by Megan Shearer, Gabriel Rauterberg, and Michael Wellman.

New graduate students join SRG
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…


Megan Shearer defends dissertation
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…

Solving Structured Hierarchical Games Using Differential Backward Induction
Z Li, F Jia, A Mate, S Jabbari, M Chakraborty, M Tambe, and Y Vorobeychik
38th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), PMLR 180: pp. 1107–1117, August 2022
Previous version presented at ICLR Workshop on Gamification…