Kevin Leyton-Brown

Affiliations  I'm in 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 organize the LCI forum. I participate in the Game Theory and Decision Theory Seminar (GT-DT) and the Empirical Algorithmics Reading Group (EARG). 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 am/have been a senior program committee member at a variety of (mostly) AI conferences, including AAAI, AAMAS, ACM-EC, IJCAI, UAI, and have also served as a program committee member at AMEC, AMMA, CP, TADA. I am an associate editor of the Journal of AI Research (JAIR) and a member of the editorial board for the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ). I'm Scientific Advisor to Worio.com.

Schedule  Please check the busy slots on my free-busy calendar before proposing a meeting time.

Graduate Students  My current students are: Albert Xin Jiang (PhD), Chris Nell (MSc., co-supervised with Holger Hoos), Baharak Rastegari (PhD, co-supervised with Anne Condon), David Thompson (PhD), Jennifer Tillett (MSc.), Lin Xu (PhD, co-supervised with Holger Hoos), James Wright (MSc.).  My graduated students are: 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 extremely unlikely to take on new PhD students from outside UBC unless I am already familiar with their publications from conferences that I attend. I am more likely to take on 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.