Past Events

  • "Selfish Self-Driving Cars: An Adventure in Algorithmic Game Theory,'' Colorado College, May 2022.
  • "When is Altruism Good in Distributed Decision-Making?'' Decision and Control Laboratory Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology, February 2022.
  • "Providing slowdown information to improve selfish routing," EAI GameNets 2021, December 2021. [Best Community-voted presentation award] YouTube
  • "Engineers who Make Selfish Machines," Philosophy in the City lecture series, UCCS Downtown, Colorado Springs, USA, September 2021.
  • "On the feasibility of local utility redesign for multiagent optimization," 6th World Congress of the Game Theory Society, Budapest, Hungary, July 2021.
  • "When Altruism Is Worse Than Anarchy in Nonatomic Congestion Games," 2021 American Control Conference, New Orleans, LA, May 2021. YouTube
  • "Engineers who Make Selfish Machines: The Ethics of Socio-Technical Systems," Ethics Roundtable for the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative at the UCCS College of Business, April 2021.
  • "Altruism Paradoxes and Emergent Security in Distributed Decision-Making," Seminar talk at the Center for Controls, Dynamical Systems, and Computation, UCSB, February 2020.
  • "Designing for Emergent Security in Heterogeneous Human-Machine Teams," 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, December 2019.
  • "Robust Methods for Influencing Strategic Behavior," Seminar talk at the University of Colorado at Boulder, November 2019.
  • "Incentives for Crypto-Collateralized Digital Assets," Decentralized 2019, Athens, Greece, October 2019.
  • "A Tragedy of Autonomy: Self-Driving Cars and Urban Congestion Externalities," 57th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton, Illinois, USA, September 2019.
  • "Robust Methods for Influencing Strategic Behavior," ASU Network Science seminar series, March 2019.
  • "Projecting Network Games onto Sparse Graphs," Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, October 2018.
  • I spoke in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs in March, 2018.
  • I spoke at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas, Arlington in February 2018.
  • "The Benefit of Perversity in Taxation Mechanisms for Distributed Routing," 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Melbourne, Australia, December 2017.
  • "Are Multiagent Systems Resilient to Communication Failures?" 33rd Southern California Controls Workshop, University of California, Santa Barbara, October 2017.
  • "The Perils of Ignoring Information in Distributed Learning," ONR Science of Autonomy Program Review, Arlington, VA, USA, August 2017.
  • "Fundamental Limits of Locally-Computed Incentives in Network Routing," 28th International Conference on Game Theory, Stony Brook University, USA, July 2017.
  • "Fundamental Limits of Locally-Computed Incentives in Network Routing," 2017 American Control Conference, Seattle, USA, May 2017.
  • "Avoiding Perverse Incentives in Affine Congestion Games," 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, USA, December 2016. [Best student paper award finalist]
  • "Optimal Mechanisms for Robust Coordination in Congestion Games," 5th World Congress on Game Theory, Maastricht, The Netherlands, July 2016.
  • "A Study on Discrimination for Robust Social Coordination," 2016 American Control Conference, Boston, USA, July 2016. [Best talk in session award]
  • "Can Price Discrimination Help Influence Social Behavior?" 30th Southern California Control Workshop, University of California, San Diego, USA, June 2016.
  • "Optimal Mechanisms for Robust Coordination in Congestion Games," 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Osaka, Japan, December 2015.
  • "Influencing Social Behavior: A Robust Approach," Robotics, Controls, and Dynamic Systems seminar series, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, November 2015.
  • "Robust Mechanisms for Influencing Cyber-Social Systems," Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Industry Advisory Board Meeting (poster session), University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, July 2015.
  • "Optimal Mechanisms for Robust Coordination in Congestion Games," 26th International Conference on Game Theory, Stony Brook University, USA, July 2015.
  • "Robust Toll Design: Influencing Selfish Behavior in Unknown Price-Sensitive Users," 3rd Midwest Workshop on Control and Game Theory, Ohio State University, USA. April 2014.
  • "Social Coordination in Unknown Price-Sensitive Populations," 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Florence, Italy. December 2013.
  • "Social Coordination in Unknown Price-Sensitive Populations," 24th International Conference on Game Theory, Stony Brook University, USA, July 2013.