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.