Strategic Reasoning Group

Faculty leader: Michael Wellman

Current Graduate Students

• Lee Callender (B.S.E. 2008)
• Ben Cassell
• Quang Duong (M.S. 2009)
• Patrick Jordan (M.S. 2007)
• Craig Wright

Undergraduates

• Guha Balakrishnan
• Flavio Kuperman

PhD Graduates

(Chronological order)

• name (defense date) [current affiliation]
  • thesis title
• John Cheng (Jan 1998) [Capital Networks]
  • Essays on Designing Economic Mechanisms
  • co-advised with Carl Simon
• Chao-Lin Liu (May 1998) [Taiwan Nat'l Chengchi University]
  • State-Space Abstraction Methods for Approximate Evaluation of Bayesian Networks
• Tracy Mullen (Jan 1999) [Pennsylvania State University]
  • The Design of Computational Markets for Network Information Services
• David Pynadath (Jan 1999) [USC Information Sciences Institute]
  • Probabilistic Grammars for Plan Recognition
• Junling Hu (Jun 1999) [Bosch Research]
  • Learning in Dynamic Noncooperative Multiagent Systems
• Peter Wurman (Jul 1999) [Kiva Systems]
  • Market Structure and Multidimensional Auction Design for Computational Economies
• David Pennock (Sep 1999) [Yahoo! Research Labs]
  • Aggregating Probabilistic Beliefs: Market Mechanisms and Graphical Representations
• William Walsh (May 2001) [CombineNet]
  • Market Protocols for Decentralized Supply Chain Formation
• Daniel Reeves (Aug 2005) [Yahoo! Research Labs]
  • Generating Trading Agent Strategies: Analytic and Empirical Methods for Infinite and Large Games
• Shih-Fen Cheng (Jul 2006) [Singapore Management University]
  • Game-Theoretic Approaches for Complex System Optimization
  • co-advised with Robert L. Smith
• Kevin Lochner (Apr 2008) [RentMineOnline.com]
  • Multiattribute Call Markets
• Yevgeniy Vorobeychik (May 2008) [University of Pennsylvania]
  • Mechanism Design and Analysis Using Simulation-Based Game Models
• Christopher Kiekintveld (Jun 2008) [University of Southern California]
  • Empirical Game-Theoretic Methods for Strategy Design and Analysis in Complex Games
• Yagil Engel (Jun 2008) [Technion]
  • Structured Preference Representation and Multiattribute Auctions
• L. Julian Schvartzman (Apr 2009)
  • Stronger Bidding Strategies through Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis and Reinforcement Learning

Alumni

• Roshan Bangera (M.S. 2000) (Commerce One)
• Kemal Eren (B.S. 2009)
• Matthew (Ford) Forgé (M.S. 1995) (Airplay Network)
• Brian Forney (B.S.E. 1996) (Cassatt)
• MeeSook Hyun (M.S. 1994) (USC)
• Brian Joh (B.S. 1997) (Lucent)
• Terence Kelly (M.S. 1998, Ph.D. 2002) (HP Labs)
• Anju Khetan (B.S.E. 2004)
• Michael Kiesel (B.S.E. 2009)
• Ken Larson (M.S. 1995)
• Yee-wah Lee (B.S.E. 1998)
• Evan Leung (B.S.E. 2003)
• Shou-de Lin (M.S. 2001) (National Taiwan University)
• Thede Loder (M.S. 2004) (Boxbe)
• Jason Miller (B.S. 2006) (Stanford)
• Kevin O'Malley (research programmer, 1997-2007) (Google)
• Ronit Reger (B.S.E. 1998)
• Rahul Suri (B.S. 2005) (21st Century Technologies)
• Sowmya Swaminathan (M.S. 2002) (Dell)
• Alfian Tan (B.S. 1997) (Microsoft)
• Jeremy Wee (B.S.E. 1996) (Citigroup)
• Chris Wong (M.S. 1997)

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