Doctoral Consortium Programme
| Monday, May 3 Join session |
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London time* | New York time* | Program | Presenters | Format |
| 1:30 - 2:00 pm | 08:30 - 09:00 am | Opening + Introductions + Ice Breakers + 1 min slide (for the students to introduce themselves) | Co-Chairs | Live |
| 2:00 - 3:15 pm | 09:00 - 10:15 am | Non-Cooperative Game Theory + Social Choice Student Presentations (10 min + 2 min Q&A); 6 talks | Students | Live |
| Non-manipulability in Set-valued and Probabilistic Social Choice Theory | Patrick Lederer (Technical University of Munich) | |||
| Multi-Agent Ranked Delegations in Voting | Rachael Colley (IRIT, University of Toulouse) | |||
| Computing Desirable Outcomes in Specific Multi-Agent Scenarios | Martin Bullinger (Technical University of Munich) | |||
| Balancing Fairness, Efficiency and Strategy-Proofness in Voting and Facility Location Problems | Alexander Lam (University of New South Wales) | |||
| Mechanism Design in Facility Location Games | Mengqi Zhang (Chinese Academy of Science) | |||
| Design and Analysis of Networks under Strategic Behavior | Sixie Yu (Washington University in St. Louis) | |||
| 5 min Break | ||||
| 3:20 - 4:20 pm | 10:20 - 11:20 am | Learning and Adaptation Student Presentations (10 min + 2 min Q&A); 5 talks | Students | Live |
| Exploring the Relationship Between Social Choice and Machine Learning | Ben Armstrong (University of Waterloo) | |||
| Computing using Samples: Theoretical Guarantees with the Direct Learning Approach | Vignesh Viswanathan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) | |||
| Improving Sample-based Reinforcement Learning through Complex Non-parametric Distributions | Shi Yuan Tang (Nanyang Technological University) | |||
| Reward-Sharing Relational Networks in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning as a Framework for Emergent Behavior | Hossein Haeri (University of Massachusetts Lowell) | |||
| Impact of Recommender Systems on the Dynamics of Users' Choices | Naieme Hazrati (Free university of Bolzano, Italy) | |||
| 10 min Break | ||||
| 4:30 - 5:30 pm | 11:30 - 12:30 pm | Speaker | Live | |
| 30 min Break | ||||
| 6:00 - 7:00 pm | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Social Good Project Idea Challenge + Form Groups | Students | Live |
| 7:00 - 8:00 pm | 2:00 - 3:00pm | Virtual Social: Meet and Greet | All | Live |
| Tuesday, May 4 Join session |
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London time* | New York time* | Program | Presenters | Format |
| 1:30 - 2:00 pm | 8:30 - 9:00 am | Virtual Social: Meet and Greet | All | Live |
| 2:00 - 3:15 pm | 09:00 - 10:15 am | Engineering Multiagent Systems + Modelling and Simulation of Societies + Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and Planning Coordination, Organisations, Institutions, and Norms + Innovative Applications Student Presentations (10 min + 2 min Q&A); 6 talks | Students | Live |
| Exploiting Hidden Convexities for Real-time and Reliable Optimization Algorithms for Challenging Motion Planning and Control Applications | Fatemeh Rastgar ( University of Tartu) | |||
| Learning Realistic and Safe Pedestrian Behavior by Imitation | José Aleixo Cruz (Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto) | |||
| Simulating Realistic Pedestrian Behaviors in the Context of Autonomous Vehicles in Shared Spaces | Manon Prédhumeau (Grenoble Alps University, LIG) | |||
| Understanding the Role of Inequality in Creating and Sustaining the Alcohol Harm Paradox using Agent-Based Modelling | Jennifer Boyd (University of Sheffield) | |||
| A Concurrent Language for Negotiation and Debate with Argumentation: Extended Abstract | Carlo Taticchi (Gran Sasso Science Institute) | |||
| Adaptable and Verifiable BDI Reasoning | Peter Stringer (The University of Manchester) | |||
| 5 min Break | ||||
| 3:20 - 4:20 pm | 10:20 - 11:20 am | Humans and AI / Human-Agent Interaction + Robotics Student Presentations (10 min + 2 min Q&A); 5 talks | Students | Live |
| Inducing Rules about Distributed Robotic Systems for Fault Detection & Diagnosis | Youssef Mahmoud Youssef (Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg) | |||
| Intention-Aware Human-Robot Collaborative Design | Matthew V. Law (Cornell University) | |||
| Modelling Trust in Human-AI Interaction | Siddharth Mehrotra (Delft University of Technology) | |||
| Software Engineering Methods for Responsible Artificial Intelligence | Zahoor ul Islam (Umeå University, Sweden) | |||
| Leveraging Social Interactions in Human-Agent Decision-Making | JiHyun Jeong (Cornell University) | |||
| 10 min Break | ||||
| 4:30 - 6:00 pm | 11:30 - 1:00 pm | Panel (Career Panel) Maria Gini (University of Minnesota) Tathagata Chakraborti (IBM Research) Vincent Conitzer (Duke University) Fei Fang (Carnegie Mellon University) | Panelists | Live |
| 30 min Break | ||||
| 6:30 - 7:00 pm | 1:30 - 2:00 pm | Pitches + Awards + Wrap-up The winning team of the Social Good Project Idea Challenge is Title: Detecting Suicidal Ideation in Graduate Students Members: Jared Soundy, Matthew Law, Manon Prédhumeau, José Cruz, Shi Yuan Tang, and Vignesh Viswanathan Guest Judge: Bryan Wilder (Harvard University) | Co-Chairs | Live |
| 7:00 - 8:00 pm | 2:00 - 3:00pm | Virtual Social: Meet and Greet | All | Live |
List of Mentors
| Haris Aziz | UNSW |
| Michael Winikoff | Victoria University of Wellington |
| Sandip Sen | University of Tulsa |
| Jianye Hao | Tianjin University |
| Samarth Swarup | University of Virginia |
| Reshef Meir | Technion-Israel Institute of Technology |
| Jean-Guy Mailly | LIPADE – Université de Paris |
| Lirong Xia | RPI |
| Maite Lopez-Sanchez | University of Barcelona |
| Edith Elkind | University of Oxford |
| Jörg P. Müller | Technische Universität Clausthal |
| Rafael H. Bordini | School of Technology, PUCRS |
| Sebastian Sardina | RMIT University |
| Stefan Kopp | Bielefeld University |
| Mohan Sridharan | University of Birmingham |
| Doina Precup | McGill University |
| Toby Walsh | UNSW |
| Fei Fang | CMU |
| Chris Amato | Northeastern University |
| Felix Brandt | Technical University of Munich |
| Kate Larson | University of Waterloo |
| Gale M. Lucas | USC |
Doctoral Consortium Programme Committee (Reviewers)
| Haris Aziz | UNSW |
| Edith Elkind | University of Oxford |
| Lirong Xia | RPI |
| Reshef Meir | Technion-Israel Institute of Technology |
| Jérôme Lang | CNRS |
| Amy Greenwald | Brown University |
| Kate Larson | University of Waterloo |
| Makoto Yokoo | Kyushu University |
| Fei Fang | CMU |
| Bo An | Nanyang Technological University |
| Arunesh Sinha | Singapore Management University |
| Silvia Schiaffino | UNICEN |
| Maria Gini | University of Minnesota |
| Sven Koenig | USC |
| Christopher Amato | Northeastern University |
| Francesco Amigoni | Politecnico di Milano |
| William Yeoh | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Wamberto Vasconcelos | University of Aberdeen |
| Michael Luck | King’s College London |
| François Schwarzentruber | ENS Rennes |
| Dominique Longin | CNRS |
| Son Tran | New Mexico State University |
| Paolo Torroni | University of Bologna |
| Stephen Guy | University of Minnesota |
| Bo Li | University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign |
| Matthew Taylor | University of Alberta |
| Christopher Frantz | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| Francesco Ricci | Free University of Bozen-Bolzano |
| Ofer Arieli | The Academic College of Tel-Aviv |
| Célia Pereira | Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis |
| Samarth Swarup | University of Virginia |
| Sandip Sen | University of Tulsa |
| Matteo Baldoni | Università degli Studi di Torino |
| Simon Parsons | King’s College London |
| Sebastian Sardina | RMIT University |
| Gita Sukthankar | University of Central Florida |
| Mohan Sridharan | University of Birmingham |
*New York time: Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-4