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Computer Science Seminar

Research Experiences for Undergraduates Seminar

Applied Computational Game Theory: Progress and Open Problems

When: Friday, July 10, 2015
Where: PGH 550
Time: 11:00 AM

Speaker: Dr. Albert Xin Jiang, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX

Host: Prof. Stephen Huang

Multi-agent systems, in which self-interested agents interact with each other, are ubiquitous in our lives. There has been recent research interest in automated decision making in such systems, from homeland security domains to electronic commerce. Game theory can be used to model and analyze these problems mathematically, but new challenges arise when we apply game theory in practice, including scaling up computation, and modeling human behavior. I will overview some progress in my research that tries to address these challenges using artificial intelligence techniques, with emphasis on applications to security, and highlight some of the remaining open problems.

Bio:

Albert Xin Jiang is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. He received his PhD from the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, and was a postdoctoral research associate in the TEAMCORE research group at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. Much of Dr. Jiang’s research is addressing computational problems arising in game theory, including the efficient computation of solution concepts such as Nash equilibrium, Stackelberg equilibrium and correlated equilibrium, as well as applications of game-theoretic computation to real-world domains such as large-scale infrastructure security and electronic commerce.

Faculty, students, and the general public are invited.