Kevin Leyton-Brown
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of British Columbia
2366 Main Mall, Room 185
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
604-822-1453 (phone)
604-822-5485 (fax)
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Curriculum
Vitae
Some Recent News
- Crop Monitoring in Uganda On my sabbatical visit to Makerere University, Kampala, I worked with collaborators to build a system for monitoring crop disease across Uganda with inexpensive mobile phones. You can watch the 2011-12 survey unfold on an online, real-time map; now the project is also featured in an article in Britain's "New Scientist" magazine.
- Zite Acquired Zite, the Vancouver-based startup for which I serve as Scientific Advisor, was just acquired by CNN. Zite makes a "personalized magazine" for the iPad.
- Program Co-Chair I'll be program co-chair of the 2012 ACM-EC conference, along with Panos Ipeirotis.
- Early Career Scholar I have been selected as one of 10 UBC faculty to participate in a year-long interdisciplinary program at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.
- Paper Award Albert Xin Jiang won the best student paper award at the ACM Electronic Commerce Conference (ACM-EC) for our joint paper, Polynomial-time Computation of Exact Correlated Equilibrium in Compact Games.
Affiliations I'm a member of the
Computer Science Department at the
University of British Columbia. I'm
affiliated with the Institute for
Computing, Information & Cognitive Systems (ICICS), the
Pacific Institute for the Mathematical
Sciences (PIMS), the Laboratory
for Computational Intelligence (LCI) and the
Bioinformatics, and Empirical &
Theoretical Algorithmics Laboratory (BETA lab). I participate in the
Game Theory and Decision
Theory Seminar (GT-DT), the
Empirical Algorithmics
Reading Group (EARG), and the LCI forum. On
my 2010–11 sabbatical I visited
Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda,
and Hebrew University
of Jerusalem's
Institute for Advanced Studies. I'm a former member of Yoav
Shoham's Multiagent Group
in the Artificial Intelligence Lab of
Stanford University's
Department of Computer Science. I
was Scientific Advisor to Zite.com
until it was
acquired
by CNN in 2011.
Editorial I am an associate editor of the Journal of AI Research (JAIR), the
Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ),
and of the ACM Transactions on
Economics and Computation (ACM-TEAC). I've guest edited for
Games and Economic Behavior (GEB) and
AI Magazine. I
have served on senior program committees at
AAAI,
AAMAS,
ACM-EC,
IJCAI, and UAI, and on
program committees at
AMEC, AMMA,
CP,
TADA.
Schedule Please check the busy slots on my
free-busy
calendar before proposing a meeting time. You can click the "busy"
slots to see the duration of each appointment.
Books I coauthored
Multiagent Systems: Algorithmic,
Game-Theoretic, and Logical Foundations, and
Essentials of Game Theory: A
Concise, Multidisciplinary Introduction,
both
with Yoav
Shoham.
Graduate Students and Postdocs My current students are:
Baharak Rastegari (PhD,
co-supervised with Anne Condon),
David Thompson (PhD),
Lin Xu (PhD,
co-supervised with
Holger Hoos), James Wright
(PhD). Frank Hutter
is a current postdoc. My graduated students are:
Albert Xin Jiang
(PhD 2011),
Chris Nell (MSc. 2011), James Wright
(MSc. 2010);
Frank
Hutter (PhD 2009); Ashiqur KhudaBukhsh
(MSc. 2009); Erik Zawadzki (MSc.
2008; BSc. Hon
2006), David Thompson (MSc. 2007),
Albert Xin Jiang
(MSc. 2006), Asher Lipson (MSc.
2005).
Prospective Students For students not enrolled at UBC: please
do not contact me directly; instead,
apply to my department and indicate an interest in working with me.
I am likely to take on new PhD students from outside UBC
only when I am already familiar with their publications from conferences
that I attend.
I am likely to take on other students for an MSc with the possibility of
continuing to a PhD. For students who are already at UBC:
please take my grad class and drop by
GT-DT if you're
interested in game theory/multiagent systems, or
take Holger
Hoos' grad class and drop by
EARG if you're
interested in empirical algorithmics.