Erik Brinkman

Deception in Finitely Repeated Security Games

TH Nguyen, Y Wang, A Sinha, and MP Wellman 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Jan/Feb 2019. Abstract Allocating resources to defend targets from attack is often complicated by uncertainty about the attacker’s capabilities,…
Mason Wright
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Mason Wright defends thesis

Congratulations to Mason Wright, on a successful thesis defense. And a special thanks to Mason's thesis committee members: Grant Schoenebeck Demos Teneketzis Jenna Wiens
Erik Brinkman

A Learning and Masking Approach to Secure Learning

L Nguyen, S Wang, and A Sinha Ninth Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security, October 2018. Abstract Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been shown to be vulnerable against adversarial examples, which are data points cleverly constructed…
Erik Brinkman

Stackelberg Security Games: Looking Beyond a Decade of Success

A Sinha, F Fang, B An, C Kiekintveld, and M Tambe 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2018. Abstract The Stackelberg Security Game (SSG) model has been immensely influential in security research since it…
Erik Brinkman

Bounding regret in empirical games

S Jecmen, A Sinha, Z Li, L Tran-Thanh 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020. Abstract Empirical game-theoretic analysis refers to a set of models and techniques for solving large-scale games. However, there is a lack…
Erik Brinkman

A Cloaking Mechanism to Mitigate Market Manipulation

X Wang, Y Vorobeychik, and MP Wellman 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 541–547, July 2018. Abstract We propose a cloaking mechanism to deter spoofing, a form of manipulation in financial markets. The…
Erik Brinkman

Incentivizing rider time-shift in a multi-leg public transportation system

M Shearer and MP Wellman 10th International Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation, July 2018. Abstract We develop an incentive scheme for a hub-to-shuttle campus transit system, encouraging riders to shift travel times to improve…
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Megan Shearer Passes Prelim

Megan Shearer passed her prelim exam, based on her directed study project: Incentivizing Rider Time-Shift in a Multi-Leg Public Transportation System. Congratulations, Megan.
Erik Brinkman

Evaluating the stability of non-adaptive trading in continuous double auctions

M Wright and MP Wellman 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pages 614–622, July 2018. Abstract The continuous double auction (CDA) is the predominant mechanism in modern securities markets. Many agent-based…
Erik Brinkman
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Erik Brinkman defends thesis

On Tue 20 Mar, Erik Brinkman successfully defended his thesis, "Understanding financial market behavior through empirical game-theoretic analysis". Congratulations, soon-to-be Dr. Brinkman. Thanks to the thesis committee members: Jacob…