Kevin Leyton-Brown
Canada CIFAR AI Chair,
AmiiProfessor
Computer Science
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
604-822-1453 (phone)
604-822-5485 (fax)

Photo credit: Martin Lipman and NSERC
Some Recent News
- ACM Fellow I'm honored to have been named as one of the 2020 ACM Fellows!
- AAAI 2021 Program Co-Chair I will help to organize the technical program for the Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, one of the field's top conferences. The conference received over 9000 submissions, accepting nearly 1800!
Schedule If you'd like to meet, please check my
free-busy
calendar before proposing a time.
Academic Affiliations I'm a member of the
Computer Science Department at the
University of British Columbia, an associate member of the Vancouver
School of Economics, and an associate faculty member at the
Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute
(Amii) via a Canada CIFAR AI Chair. I'm Director of the UBC ICICS
Centre for Artificial Intelligence
Decision-making and Action (CAIDA). I am 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
Algorithms Lab. I
run the
Game Theory and Decision
Theory Seminar (GT-DT). I'm
a faculty
associate at the Peter Wall
Institute for Advanced Studies.
Research Community Recognitions I'm a
Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and a
Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
(AAAI).
Past Academic Affiliations
In 2018 I was a visiting researcher at
Microsoft Research New York City and a visiting faculty member at
both Technion IIT
and Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
In 2016 I was a
long-term visitor
at the Simons
Institute program on
Algorithms and Uncertainty at
UC Berkeley, a visiting researcher at
Microsoft Research New England, and a visiting faculty member at
Harvard University. In 2015 I was a
long-term
visitor at the Simons
Institute program on
Economics and Computation at UC Berkeley. 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.
Industry Affiliations I currently advise
AI21 and
Auctionomics. I have co-founded two
companies:
Kudu.ug and
Meta-Algorithmic Technologies. In the past, I
have consulted for Cryptic Labs,
OneChronos,
Qudos,
Zynga,
Trading Dynamics,
Ariba,
Cariocas, and was scientific advisor to Vancouver-based
Zite until it was
acquired by CNN in 2011.
Editorial I am chair of the ACM
Special Interest Group on Electronic
Commerce (SIG-Ecom). I am an associate editor of the
Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ),
the ACM Transactions on
Economics and Computation (ACM-TEAC), and
AI Access,
and an Advisory Board member for the Journal of AI Research (JAIR). I was program chair for
ACM-EC in 2012, and have been
tutorial chair for IJCAI,
AAAI
and ACM-EC. I've guest edited for
Games and Economic Behavior (GEB),
ACM-TEAC, and
AI Magazine. I
have been an area chair for IJCAI, served on senior program committees at
AAAI,
AAMAS,
ACM-EC,
IJCAI, and UAI, and on
program committees at
AMEC, AMMA,
CP,
CROCS,
TADA.
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:
Chris Cameron (PhD);
Greg D'Eon (PhD);
Devon Graham (PhD);
Jason Hartford (PhD; MSc 2016); Taylor Lundy (PhD; MSc 2019); Neil
Newman (PhD; MSc 2016); Hedeyat Zarkoob (PhD).
Former postdocs are Alice Gao
(now at Waterloo),
Frank Hutter
(PhD 2009; now at Freiburg) and
Lars Kotthoff (now at
Wyoming). My past graduate students are:
James Wright
(PhD 2016, MSc 2010; now at Alberta);
Steve Ramage
(MSc 2015);
David Thompson (PhD 2015; MSc.
2007);
Alexandre Fréchette (left for Google);
Lin Xu (PhD 2014); Baharak Rastegari
(PhD 2013; now at Southampton);
Chris Thornton (MSc 2012);
Albert Xin Jiang
(PhD 2011; MSc. 2006),
Chris Nell (MSc. 2011),
Ashiqur KhudaBukhsh
(MSc. 2009); Erik Zawadzki (MSc.
2008; BSc. Hon 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.
You can learn about my research area from
my free online class. 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 the intersection between artificial intelligence,
optimization, and strategic behavior.