Dissertation Award

The Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award is given for dissertations in the field of autonomous agents and multiagent systems that show originality, depth, impact, as well as quality of writing, supported by high-quality publications.

The recipient of the 2020 IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award is Dr. Noam Brown, whose thesis entitled “Equilibrium Finding for Large Adversarial Imperfect-Information Games” was supervised by Prof. Tuomas Sandholm at Carnegie Mellon University. The selection committee also decided to recognise two further nominees (not ordered), namely Dr. Yuan Deng for his thesis “Dynamic Mechanism Design in Complex Environments” supervised by Prof. Vincent Conitzer at Duke University, and Dr. Hang Ma for his thesis “Target Assignment and Path Planning for Navigation Tasks with Teams of Agents” supervised by Prof. Sven Koenig at the University of Southern California.

The recipient of the award will be delivering a keynote address at the conference. More information about the award and a list of previous winners are available from the IFAAMAS website.