Kevin Leyton-Brown

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)

Brief biography

Curriculum Vitae

Some Recent News

Thesis Award My former student Albert Xin Jiang received the runner up IFAAMAS-11 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. Yay Albert!
Papers at Summer Conferences It's been a great year for me, my students, and my collaborators: so far, we have 3 papers accepted at AAAI, 1 at AAMAS, 1 at SAT, and 1 at IAAI. Preprints for all of these are available at my publications page. We'll also present our work at GAMES (2 talks), the Greek Summer School on AGT and MATCH-UP.
Program Co-Chair I'm currently serving as program co-chair of the 2012 ACM-EC conference, along with Panos Ipeirotis. We received a record 219 submissions, and ultimately accepted a record 73 of them. It looks like it will be a great conference!
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.

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. I'm a faculty associate at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. 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.