I am an Assistant Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University and an Associate Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Foundations and Engineered Systems (CAFE). I am a member of the Data Science and AI group; I am also affiliated with CS Theory Group and the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Prior to that I was a postdoctoral research fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, hosted by Ariel Procaccia. I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, advised by Kate Larson and Robin Cohen.
My ResearchI usually work on problems related to Artificial Intelligence and Multiagent Systems. More specifically, I am interested in problems at the interface of computer science and economics. I often study different aspects of self-interested players in multiagent systems, and develop algorithms and theoretical techniques to achieve certain computational and game-theoretical properties.
My group is supported by an NSF Medium RI Award and an NSF CRII Award. Thank you, NSF!
Received a new award from the National Science Foundation to further study transparency in fair allocation of resources and items and perceived fairness of humans. Thank you, NSF!
This is a project in collaboration with Prof. Lirong Xia.
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Received a new grant from Penn State's IST Seed Funding to study fairness in matching markets. Thank you!
The tutorial discusses various mechanism design settings (such as matching and facility locations), their desired properties and solution concepts, and algorithmic tools/mechanisms.
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Consider submitting your papers to the 3rd Games, Agents and Incentives Workshop (GAIW) @AAMAS 2021.
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My research assistant, Fatima Umar, received a prestigous Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar Award at RIT.
I am thrilled to announce that I will be joining Penn State University as an Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence in Fall 2020.
I am deeply grateful to my colleagues, collaborators, and mentors at RIT for wonderful three years.
Rochester Institute of Technology
Connections: Can AI help us become more fair as a society? Listen to my interview: WXXI Radio Link.
Congratulations to Andrew Searns, my undergraduate student at RIT working on fairness in resource allocation, who has received an Honorable Mention for the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award!
Connections: Will artificial intelligence enhance or replace human activity? Listen to my interview: WXXI Radio Link.
Two papers accepted at AAMAS: one full paper and one short paper.
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)
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International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)
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Rochester Institute of Technology