Home Page for Professor Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania (original) (raw)

My research interests include topics in machine learning, artificial intelligence, algorithmic game theory and microeconomics, computational social science, and quantitative finance and algorithmic trading. I often examine problems in these areas using methods and models from theoretical computer science and related disciplines. While much of my work is mathematical in nature, I also often participate in empirical and experimental projects, including applications of machine learning to problems in algorithmic trading and quantitative finance, and human-subject experiments on strategic and economic interaction in social networks.

For (in)convenience, most of this site is organized as a single flat html file. The links below let you navigate directly to the various subsections.

Aaron Rothand I have written ageneral-audience bookabout the science of designing algorithms that embed social values like privacy and fairness; here is the publisher's description:

Over the course of a generation, algorithms have gone from mathematical abstractions to powerful mediators of daily life. Algorithms have made our lives more efficient, more entertaining, and, sometimes, better informed. At the same time, complex algorithms are increasingly violating the basic rights of individual citizens. Allegedly anonymized datasets routinely leak our most sensitive personal information; statistical models for everything from mortgages to college admissions reflect racial and gender bias. Meanwhile, users manipulate algorithms to "game" search engines, spam filters, online reviewing services, and navigation apps.

Understanding and improving the science behind the algorithms that run our lives is rapidly becoming one of the most pressing issues of this century. Traditional fixes, such as laws, regulations and watchdog groups, have proven woefully inadequate. Reporting from the cutting edge of scientific research, The Ethical Algorithm offers a new approach: a set of principled solutions based on the emerging and exciting science of socially aware algorithm design. Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth explain how we can better embed human principles into machine code - without halting the advance of data-driven scientific exploration. Weaving together innovative research with stories of citizens, scientists, and activists on the front lines, The Ethical Algorithm offers a compelling vision for a future, one in which we can better protect humans from the unintended impacts of algorithms while continuing to inspire wondrous advances in technology.

"Algorithmic Trading: The Machine Learning Approach",(Quantcon 2015, technical)


BRIEF PROFESSIONAL BIO

Current:

Since 2002 I have been a professor in theComputer and Information Science Departmentat theUniversity of Pennsylvania,where I hold the National Center Chair. I have secondary appointments in the department of Economics,and in the departments of Statistics and Data Scienceand Operations, Information and Decisions (OID) in the Wharton School.I am the Founding Director of the Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences, where my Co-Director isRakesh Vohra.I am the faculty founder and former director of Penn Engineering's Networked and Social Systems Engineering (NETS) Program, whose current directors are Andreas HaeberlenandAaron Roth.I am a faculty affiliate in Penn'sApplied Math and Computational Sciencegraduate program. Until July 2006 I was the co-director of Penn's interdisciplinary Institute for Research in Cognitive Science.

Since June 2020, I have been an Amazon Scholar,focusing on fairness, privacy and other "responsible AI" topics withinAmazon Web Services.

I have worked extensively in quantitative and algorithmic trading on Wall Street (including at Lehman Brothers, Bank of America, SAC Capital and Morgan Stanley; see further details below). I often serve as an advisor to technology companies and venture capital firms, and sometimes invest in early-stage technology startups. I occasionally serve as an expert witness or consultant on technology-related legal and regulatory cases.

I am an elected Member/Fellow of theNational Academy of Sciences,theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences,theAssociation for Computing Machinery,theAssociation for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence,and theSociety for the Advancement of Economic Theory.

The Past:

I spent the decade 1991-2001 in machine learning and AI research atAT&T Bell Labs.(Here is an epic photoof Labs staff from 1995, there are many famous scientists peppered throughout.) During my last four years there, I was the head of the AI department, which conducted a broad range of systems and foundational AI work; I also served briefly as the head of the Secure Systems Research department.The AI department boasted terrific colleagues and friends that includedCharles Isbell (now at Georgia Tech),Diane Litman (now at University of Pittsburgh),Michael Littman (later at Rutgers, now at Brown),David McAllester (now at TTI-Chicago),Satinder Singh (now at University of Michigan),Peter Stone (now at University of Texas), andRich Sutton (now at University of Alberta). Prior to my time as its head, the AI department was shaped by the efforts of a number of notable figures, includingRon Brachman (who originally founded the department; now at Cornell Tech),Henry Kautz (who led the department before heading to the University of Washington; now at the University of Rochester), andBart Selman (now at Cornell). Before leading the AI group, I was a member of the closely related Machine Learning department at the labs, which was headed byFernando Pereira (later at Penn, now at Google), and includedMichael Collins (later at MIT and Columbia, now at Google),Sanjoy Dasgupta (now at UCSD),Yoav Freund (now at UCSD),Rob Schapire (later at Princeton, now at Microsoft Research),William Cohen (now at CMU), andYoram Singer (later at Hebrew University and Google, now at Princeton). Other friends and colleagues from Labs days includeSebastian Seung (later at MIT, now at Princeton),Lawrence Saul (later at Penn, now at UCSD),Yann LeCun (now at Facebook and NYU),Roberto Pieraccini (now at Jibo),Esther Levin (now at Point72),Lyn Walker (now at UC Santa Cruz),Corinna Cortes (now at Google), and Vladimir Vapnik (now at Facebook).

I spent 2001 as CTO of the European venture capital firm Syntek Capital, and joined the Penn faculty in January 2002.

From June 2018 to June 2020, I led applied research in theAI Center of ExcellenceatMorgan Stanley,along withYuriy Nevmyvaka(with whom I have also collaborated on a number of papers onalgorithmic trading).

From June 2016 to March of 2018, I was the Chief Scientist ofMANA Partners,a trading, technology and asset management firm based in NYC. From early 2014 to June 2016, I led a quantitative portfolio management team with Yuriy NevmyvakaatEngineers Gate.From June 2009 through September 2013, we were PMs in the MultiQuant division of SAC Capital in New York City. From May 2007 through April 2009, we led a quantitative trading team at Bank of America in New York City, working on both proprietary and algorithmic trading strategies within BofA's Electronic Trading Services division.From the Spring of 2002 through May 2007, I was first a consultant to, and later the head of, a quant prop trading team within the Equity Strategies group of Lehman Brothers in New York City.

I spent most of 2011 on sabbatical in Cambridge, England, where I visited theUniversity of Cambridge Economics Departmentand was a visiting Fellow atChrist's College.I also spent time visitingMicrosoft Research Cambridge.

I have served as an advisor to the startupsYodle (acquired by web.com),Wealthfront, Activate Networks, RootMetrics (acquired by IHS),Convertro (acquired by AOL),Invite Media(acquired by Google),SiteAdvisor(founded by Chris Dixon; acquired by McAfee), PayNearMe (formerly known as Kwedit), andRiverhead Networks(acquired by Cisco). I was also involved in Dixon's startupHunch (acquired by eBay), and have been a consultant toBessemer Venture Partners.

In the past I have served as a member of the Advanced Technology Advisory Council ofPJM Interconnection.the Scientific Advisory Board of Opera Solutions, and the Technical Advisory Board ofMicrosoft Research Cambridge.I am a former member of the Scientific Advisory Board of theAlan Turing Institute,and of the Market Surveillance Advisory Group ofFINRA,and a former external faculty member at theSanta Fe Institute.


EDUCATION

I did my undergraduate studies at the University of California at Berkeley in math and computer science, graduating in 1985. I received a Ph.D. in computer science from Harvard University in 1989. The title of my dissertation was The Computational Complexity of Machine Learning (see Publications below for more information), and Les Valiant was my (superb) advisor. Following postdoctoral positions at the Laboratory for Computer Science at M.I.T. (hosted by Ron Rivest) and at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley (hosted by Dick Karp), in 1991 I joined the research staff of AT&T Bell Labs, and later the Penn faculty (see professional bio above).

Alongside my formal education, I was strongly influenced by being raised in an academic family, which included my father David R. Kearns(UCSD, Chemistry); his brother, and my uncleThomas R. Kearns(Amherst College, Philosophy); their father, and my paternal grandfather, Clyde W. Kearns (University of Illinois, Entomology); my motherAlice Chen Kearns,who was an early influence on my writing; and her father, and my maternal grandfather Chen Shou-Yi(Pomona College, Chinese History and Literature).


EDITORIAL AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

In the past I have been program chair or co-chair of ACM FAccT, NIPS, AAAI, COLT, and ACM EC. I have also served on the program committees of NIPS, AAAI, IJCAI, COLT, UAI, ICML, STOC, FOCS, and a variety of other acryonyms. I am a member of the NIPS Foundation, and was formerly on the steering committee for the Snowbird Conference on Learning (RIP).

I am currently on the editorial board of theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

I am currently/recently on the editorial boards of the MIT Press series on Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning, and the journalsPNAS NexusandMarket Microstructure and Liquidity.

In the past I have served on the editorial boards of Games and Economic Behavior, the Journal of the ACM, SIAM Journal on Computing, Machine Learning, the Journal of AI Research, and the Journal of Machine Learning Research.

I serve as a current member and former chair of theACM A.M. Turing Award Committee.

I am currently a member of the Emerging Technology Technical Advisory Committeeof the U.S. Department of Commerce.

I am a former member of theComputer Science and Telecommunications Boardof the National Academies. From 2002-2008 I was a member, vice chair and chair of DARPA's Information Science and Technology (ISAT) study group.

I am the current chair of Section 34 (Computer and Information Sciences) of theNational Academy of Sciences,


RESEARCH GROUP

Current (alphabetical):

PostdocYahav Bechavod (hosted by Aaron Roth )
Doctoral studentNatalie Collina (jointly advised with Aaron Roth )
Doctoral studentIra Globus-Harris (jointly advised with Aaron Roth )
Doctoral studentVarun Gupta (jointly advised with Aaron Roth )
Masters student Miranda Miao
Doctoral studentGeorgy Noarov (jointly advised with Aaron Roth )
Doctoral studentMirah Shi (jointly advised with Aaron Roth )
Doctoral studentSikata Sengupta (jointly advised with Aaron Roth and Duncan Watts )

Alumni (reverse chronological):

Former postdoc Jess Sorrell, now on the Johns Hopkins faculty
Former doctoral studentAlexander Tolbert, now on the Emory University faculty
Former Masters studentDeclan Harrison, now an officer in the U.S. Navy
Former doctoral studentEmily Diana, now on the research faculty at TTI Chicago, then joining CMU faculty
Former doctoral studentSaeed Sharifi-Malvajerdi, now on the research faculty at TTI Chicago
Former doctoral studentChris Jung, now a postdoc at Stanford
FormerWarren Center postdocTravis Dick, now at Google Research NYC
FormerWarren Center postdocJuba Ziani, now on the Georgia Tech faculty
Former doctoral studentHadi Elzayn , now a research scientist at Meta/Facebook
Former doctoral studentSeth Neel, now on the Harvard Business School faculty
Former doctoral student Shahin Jabbari, now on the Drexel faculty
Former Warren Center postdocJieming Mao, now at Google Research NYC
Former Warren Center postdocBo Waggoner, now on the University of Colorado faculty
Former Warren Center postdocJamie Morgenstern, now on the University of Washington faculty
Former doctoral student Steven Wu, now on the CMU faculty
Former doctoral studentHoda Heidari, now on the CMU faculty
Former doctoral student Ryan Rogers, now at LinkedIn
Former Warren Center postdocGrigory Yaroslavtsev, now on the George Mason University faculty
Former graduate student Lili Dworkin now at Recidiviz
Former doctoral student Kareem Amin, now at Google Research NYC
Former research scientist Stephen Judd
Former doctoral studentMickey Brautbar, now at Shipt
Former postdocJake Abernethy, now on the Georgia Tech faculty
Former postdoc Karthik Sridharan, now on the Cornell faculty
Former postdoc Kris Iyer, now on the Cornell faculty
Former MD/PhD student Renuka Nayak, now on the UCSF faculty
Former doctoral student Tanmoy Chakraborty, now at Facebook
Former postdocUmar Syed, now at Google Research NYC
Former doctoral student Jinsong Tan, now at Square
Former postdocEugene Vorobeychik, now on the Washington University faculty
Former postdoc Giro Cavallo, now at Yahoo! NYC
Former doctoral student Jenn Wortman Vaughan, now at Microsoft Research NYC
Former postdocEyal Even-Dar, now at Final Israel
Former doctoral student Sid Suri, now at Microsoft Research NYC
Former postdocSham Kakade, now on the Harvard faculty
Former postdocRyan Porter
Former postdocLuis Ortiz, now on the University of Michigan-Dearborn CS faculty
Former postdocJohn Langford, now at Microsoft Research NYC


TEACHING AND TUTORIAL MATERIAL

Teaching Spring 2025:CIS 4230/5230,Ethical Algorithm Design.
Teaching Fall 2024:CIS 6250,Theory of Machine Learning.
Web page for the undergraduate courseNetworked Life (NETS 112), Fall 2019and a condensedonline video version.
(See also the Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011 (hosted at Lore), Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2005, and Spring 2004 offerings.)
Web page forMKSE 150: Market and Social Systems on the Internet, Spring 2013,taught jointly with Aaron Roth.
Web page for the graduate seminarNo Regrets in Learning and Game Theory, Spring 2013,run jointly with Aaron Roth.
Here are the slides for my STOC 2012 tutorial on Algorithmic Trading and Computational Finance
Web page forCIS 625, Spring 2018: Computational Learning Theory.Here is the Spring 2016 version,anearlier version with Grigory Yaroslavtsev, anearlier version with Jake Abernethy, and anearlier version with Koby Crammer.
Web page for the graduate seminar courseSocial Networks and Algorithmic Game Theory, Fall 2009
Web page for CIS 620, Fall 2007: Seminar on Foundations of Cryptography.
Web page for CIS 620, Fall 2006: Seminar on Sponsored Search.
Web page for the graduate seminar CIS 700/04: Advanced Topics in Machine Learning (Fall 2004).
Web page for CIS 700/04: Advanced Topics in Machine Learning (Fall 2003).
Web page for a course on Computational Game Theory (Spring 2003). This was a joint course between CIS and Wharton (listed as CIS 620 and Wharton OPIM 952).
Course web page for CIS 620: Advanced Topics in AI (Spring 2002)
Course web page for CIS 620: Advanced Topics in AI (Spring 1997)
Web page for NIPS 2002 Tutorial on Computational Game Theory.
ACL 1999 Tutorial Slides [PDF]
Course Outline and Material for 1999 Bellairs Institute Workshop
Theoretical Issues in Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence (FOCS 98 Tutorial) [PDF]
A Short Course in Computational Learning Theory: ICML '97 and AAAI '97 Tutorials [PDF]


PRESS/MEDIA

Below are some press/media articles about my research/work, or in which I am quoted, or which I authored. (Some links are behind paywalls or are unfortunately now dead.)

Daily Pennsylvanian articleabout fireside chat with Yann LeCun, April 2025.
Daily Pennsylvanian articleabout National Academy members open letter about threats to science, April 2025.
Associated Press articleon Hinton/Hopfield Nobel Prize in Physics, October 2024.
Innovating responsibly with generative AI,the Guardian, October 2024.
Areview in the Spectatorof the Savoy Company of Philadelphiaproduction of "The Grand Duke", August 2024. (OK not work-related but how cool!)
FastCompany summary of panel onAI and public safety,July 2024.
Article in Information Weekon AWS Financial Services Symposium Panel on Responsible AI, June 2024.
Philadelphia 6 ABC pieceon generative AI, June 2024.
Articles inSemaforandPenn Engineering blogon thismodel disgorgement paper,May 2024.
Philadelphia FOX29 TV piece onPenn Engineering's new AI major,February 2024.
Podcast onresponsible AI in the generative era,on This Week in Machine Learning with Sam Charrington, December 2023.
Ever-so-briefsound bite about ChatGPTon NPR's All Thing Considered, November 2023.
InformationWeek article onChatGPT and the Great App-ocalypse,November 2023.
Amazon post onclean rooms differential privacy product launch,November 2023.
Amazon Science blog post onResponsible AI in the wild: Lessons learned at AWS,with Aaron Roth, November 2023.
Article about Apple and generative AIin AI Business, October 2023.
Article about LLM prompt researchin AI Business, September 2023.
"Bridging Philly"podcastand radio program on generative AI with Cary Coglianese and host Raquel Williams, July 2023.
Penn Engineeringpodcastandvideoon "The Growth and Impact of Generative AI", May 2023.
Amazon Science blog post onResponsible AI in the generative era,May 2023.
Penn Engineering blog post on the vulnerability of US Census data to reconstruction attack,February 2023.
"The Take" podcast episode on the human cost of ChatGPT,February 2023.
Philadelphia Inquirer article on face scanning at PHL,January 2023.
Die Zeit Article on ChatGPT, January 2023.
This Week in Machine Learningpodcast with Sam Charrington, January 2023.
Articles on AWS AI/ML launch of service cards inReuters, Tech Times,andVenture Beat,December 2022.
"Eye on AI" podcast,August 2022.
Science News article on AI and ethics,February 2022.
Interview with Clubic related to AWS ML Summit (en Francais),June 2021.
Actuia article related to AWS ML Summit (en Francais),May 2021.
Press release on election to National Academy of Sciencesand anarticle in Penn Today,April 2021.
"Who Should Stop Unethical AI?", The New Yorker [PDF version]February 2021, and a follow-up article in Psychology Today,April 2021.
Penn Gazette interview on "The Ethical Algorithm",November 2020.
Series of articles on bias in AI in Quartz,March 2020.
NPR Marketplace on algorithmic trading and coronavirus fears,March 2020.
Ipse Dixit podcast on "The Ethical Algorithm",March 2020.
WHYY's The Pulse piece on "Can Algorithms Help Judges Make Fair Decisions?",February 2020.
Tech Nation interview with Moira Gunn on "The Ethical Algorithm",January 2020.
Interview with Aaron Roth about "The Ethical Algorithm" in SINC (Spanish),January 2020.
Philadelphia Inquirer article about face scanning at PHL,January 2020.
Fintech Beat podcast with Chris Brummer on "The Ethical Algorithm",January 2020.
Review of "The Ethical Algorithm" in Nature,January 2020.
Discussion of "The Ethical Algorithm" at Keystone Strategy NYC, aired on CSPAN's Book TV,December 2019.
Discussion of "The Ethical Algorithm" on Beyond50 Radio,December 2019.
"The Ethical Algorithm" on Talks at Google,December 2019.
Steptoe CyberLaw podcast on "The Ethical Algorithm",December 2019.
Podcast on "The Ethical Algorithm" for Carnegie Council,December 2019.
Podcast on "The Ethical Algorithm" on Knowledge@Wharton,December 2019.
Podcast of Seattle Town Hall talk on "The Ethical Algorithm", moderated by Eric Horvitz,November 2019.
Interview about "The Ethical Algorithm" on WHYY's Radio Times (at 32 minute mark),November 2019.
Opinion piece adapted from themes in "The Ethical Algorithm" in Scientific American,November 2019.
Excerpt from "The Ethical Algorithm" in Penn Today,November 2019.
NPR Marketplace Morning Report interview on "The Ethical Algorithm",October 2019.
Very brief informational article on deepfakes in Christian Science Monitor,October 2019.
Knowledge@Wharton article on the market for consumer data and related privacy concerns,October 2019.
A couple of articles in Penn Todayon AI, ML and "The Ethical Algorithm" and arelated podcast, September 2019.
NPR Marketplace interview on presidential tweets, market volatility and algorithms (roughly the 2 minute mark),August 2019.
Knowledge@Wharton article on data privacy, anonymity, and re-identification,August 2019.
WSJ article on Wall Street and academia,May 2019.
Bloomberg article on machine learning at Morgan Stanley,April 2019.
Fast Company article by Kartik Hosanagar on an algorithmic bill of rights,March 2019.
Bloomberg article about shutdown of the legendary Prediction Company,September 2018.
Bloomberg article about joining Morgan Stanley,June 2018.
NYT article on the EU's GDPR,May 2018.
Penn News article on fairness gerrymandering,February 2018.
NPR Marketplace interview on algorithmic trading and market volatility,February 2018.
"Data Skeptic" podcast with Kyle Polich on machine learning, computational complexity, game theory, trading, fairness etc.November 2017.
WSJ article on financial markets counterterrorism.October 2017.
Regulatory Review article on fairness in machine learning.October 2017.
Axios article on "intimiate" data and machine learning,September 2017.
Interview on Fairness in Machine Learning.Aired on Sirius XM Channel 111, Business Radio Powered by The Wharton School, August 2017.
Pasatiempo Magazine (Santa Fe New Mexican) article about SFI lecture on machine learning and social norms,April 2017.
CBS Sunday Morning segment on "Luck",September 2016.
Bloomberg news article on machine learning and macroeconomic policy,and a related radio segment onBloomberg Surveillance,June 2016.
Some coverage of the articlePrivate Algorithms for the Protected in Social Network SearchinQuartz, Pacific Standard, Motherboard, Naked Scientists, Groks Science, PBS Newshour,andupenn.edu,Jan-June 2016.
MIT Technology Review article on Cloverpop, September 2014.
Bloomberg News article on HFT and hybrid quant funds, March 2014
Discussions of PAC and SQ learning and their relevance to evolution in Les Valiant's book "Probably Approximately Correct", June 2013
NPR text and audio on Coursera, online education, and Penn, October 2012
Australian radio program "Future Tense" on "The Algorithm", March 2012
Chapter on biased voting experiments in Garth Sundem's book "Brain Trust", 2012.
ScienceNews article on Princeton fish consensus experiments, December 2011.
A profileof and an interview with Les Valiant upon his receiving the 2010 Turing Award, CACM June 2011.
Profile and lecture overview,Christ's College Pieces, Lent Term 2011.
Fiscal Times article on machine learning and technology in trading, March 2011,
Wired Magazine article on algorithmic trading, January 2011, and some more extensive remarks and one-year follow-up on the author's blog.
Science News article on light speed propagation delays in trading, October 2010
Economist article on flash crash autopsy, October 2010
WSJ online post on HFT research, September 2010
Discussion of behavioral social network experiments in Peter Miller's "The Smart Swarm" (Chapter 3, page 139 forward)
Atlantic article on HFT "crop circles", August 2010
Nature News article on "distributed thinking", August 2010
Wall Street Journal article on machine learning in quant trading, July 2010 and a related interview on CNBC
New Scientist article on "Why Facebook friends are worth keeping", July 2010; here is a free reproduction
Philadelphia Business Journal article on the MKSE program and Networked Life, October 2009
Discussion of behavioral social network experiments in Christakis and Fowler's "Connected" (page 165 foward)
Philadelphia Inquirer article on networked voting experiments, March 2009
Science Daily article on networked voting experiments, February 2009
The Trade magazine article natural language processing for algorithmic trading, September 2007
Bloomberg Markets magazine article on AI on Wall Street, June 2007
SIAM News article on behavioral graph coloring, November 2006
Philadelphia Inquirer article on network science and NSA link analysis, May 2006
Chicago Tribune article on privacy in blogs and social networks, November 2005
Chronicle of Higher Education article on Facebook and social networks, May 2004
Star-Ledger article on the demise of AT&T Labs, March 2004
Business Week Online article on technology in NASDAQ and NYSE, September 2003
Philadelphia Inquirer article on ISTAR, interdependent security, and games on networks, January 2003
Washington Post article on web-based chatterbots, September 2002
New Scientist article on the Cobot spoken dialogue system, August 2002
Tornado Insider article on DDoS attacks, January 2002 [Cover]
Tornado Insider article on biometric security, January 2002
Audio of COMNET panel "Staving Off Denial-of-Service Attacks and Detecting Malicious Code"
Tornado Insider article on natural language technology, September 2001
Tornado Insider article on robotics, July 2001
Il Sole 24 Ore profile, June 2001 [English Translation]
Corriere Della Sera profile, May 2001 [English Translation]
Associated Press article on software robots, February 2001
New York Times article on TAC, August 2000
New York Times on Cobot, February 2000
TIME Digital Magazine (now Time On) on Cobot, May 2000
Washington Post article on Cobot, December 2000
New York Times article on boosting, August 1999


PUBLICATIONS:BOOKS

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The Computational Complexity of Machine Learning. This revision of my doctoral dissertation was published by the MIT Press as part of the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Series. As it is now out of print, I am making it available for downloading below.
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PUBLICATIONS: RESEARCH ARTICLES

What follows is a listing of (almost) all of my research papers in (approximately) reverse chronological order. For papers with both a conference and journal version, the paper is usually placed by its first (conference) date. Also, as per the honorable tradition of the theoretical computer science community, on almost all of the papers below that are primarily mathematical in content, authors are listed alphabetically.

Acronyms for conferences and journals include: AAAI: Annual National Conference on Artificial Intelligence; AIES: AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society; AISTATS: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics; ALT: Algorithmic Learning Theory; COLT: Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory; EC: ACM Conference on Economics and Computation; FAccT: ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (formerly FAT* and FATML); FOCS: IEEE Foundations of Computer Science; HCOMP: AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing; ICCV: International Conference on Computer Vision; ICML: International Conference on Machine Learning; IJCAI: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence; ITCS: Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science; NIPS/NeurIPS: Neural Information Processing Systems; PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; SaTML: IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning; SODA: ACM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms; STOC: ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computation; UAI: Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence; WINE: Workshop on Internet and Network Economics.

In addition to the list below, you can also look at my page onGoogle Scholar,and this DBLP queryseems to do a pretty good job of finding those publications that appeared in mainstream CS venues (though not others), and can be useful for generating bibtex citations.

NOTE:The main result of the paper above --- an efficient algorithm claimed to find a single exactNash equilibrium in tree graphical games --- is unfortunatelywrong.This was discovered and discussed in the very nice paper by Elkind, Goldberg and Goldberg, which can be foundhere.The problem of efficiently computing an exact Nash equilibrium in trees remains open (though EG&G demonstrate that no two-pass algorithm can suffice). The original polynomial-time approximateNash algorithm from the K., Littman, Singh UAI 2001 paper is unaffected by these developments, as is its NashProp generalization in the Ortiz and K. 2002 NIPS paper.

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