Austin Nguyen defends dissertation proposal
On March 30, 2026, Austin Nguyen presented and successfully defended his dissertation proposal titled "Offline Learning Paradigms in Game-Theoretic Multiagent Reinforcement Learning."
The dissertation committee comprises:
Michael Wellman…
Madelyn Gatchel defends dissertation proposal
On April 14, 2025, Madelyn Gatchel presented and successfully defended her dissertation proposal titled "Learning and Reasoning About Parameterized Families of Games."
The dissertation committee comprises:
Michael Wellman [chair]
Elizabeth…
Learning Bayesian Game Families, with Application to Mechanism Design
M Gatchel and MP Wellman
25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), May 2026. To appear.
Abstract
Learning or estimating game models from data typically entails inducing separate models for each setting,…
Conservative Equilibrium Discovery in Offline Game-Theoretic Multiagent Reinforcement Learning
A Nguyen, and MP Wellman
25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), May 2026. To appear.
Abstract
Offline learning of strategies takes data efficiency to its extreme by restricting algorithms to a…
Madelyn Gatchel finishes as runner-up at CSE Graduate Honors Competition
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."…
Market Selection with Midpoint Matching: A Strategic Agent-Based Analysis
G Smithline, A Gu, and MP Wellman
6th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF), November 2025. To appear.
Abstract
We study midpoint matching through Nasdaq’s Midpoint Extended-Life Order (M-ELO) mechanism, which offers non-displayed…
Gabe Smithline Passes Prelim
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!
Explicit Exploration for High-Welfare Equilibria in Game-Theoretic Multiagent Reinforcement Learning
A Nguyen, A Gu, and MP Wellman
42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2025.
Abstract
Iterative extension of empirical game models through deep reinforcement learning (RL) has proved an effective approach for finding…
Chris Mascioli Passes Prelim
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…
SRG paper wins Best Paper Award at ICAIF 2024
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…
