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…
SRG team is a winner in the AgentX-AgentBeats Competition
Our team MAizeBargAIn, led by PhD students Gabriel Smithline and Chris Mascioli, won 1st place in the Multiagent Evaluation category in Phase 1 of the AgentX-AgentBeats Competition, hosted by Berkeley RDI in conjunction with the Agentic AI…
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."…
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!
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…
Christine Konicki defends dissertation
On 21 October 2024, Christine Konicki successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled, "Exploiting Tree Structure in Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis for Extensive-Form Games."
Thanks to the dissertation committee members:
Michael…
Katherine Mayo defends dissertation
On 15 May 2024, Katherine Mayo successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled, "A Strategic Agent-Based Analysis of Economic and Technological Changes in Financial Networks."
Thanks to the dissertation committee members:
Michael…
Madelyn receives 2024 CSE HACKS Spirit Award
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…
Zun Li defends dissertation
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)
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