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AAAI 2024 Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity

The AAAI Award for AI for the benefit of humanity recognizes the positive impacts of artificial intelligence to protect, enhance, and improve human life in meaningful ways with long-lived effects. Award statement “For groundbreaking applications of novel AI techniques to public safety and security, conservation, and public health, benefiting humanity on an international scale.

AAAI 2023 Feigenbaum Prize

The AAAI Feigenbaum Prize is awarded biennially to recognize and encourage outstanding Artificial Intelligence research advances that are made by using experimental methods of computer science. Dr Tambe is being honored for high-impact contributions to the field of artificial intelligence through innovation and achievement in socially beneficial applications of AI in security, healthcare, and conservation.

AAAI 2019 Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award

The AAAI Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award is given to people who have demonstrated excellence in scholarship in AI, outstanding applications of AI, as well as extraordinary service to AAAI and the AI community. Dr Tambe is being honored in particular for outstanding research contributions in the area of multi-agent systems and their application to problems of societal significance.

IJCAI 2018 John McCarthy Award

The IJCAI John McCarthy Award is intended to recognize established mid-career researchers that have built up a major track record of research excellence in artificial intelligence. From the award text: “Professor Tambe is recognized for research and development of important practical applications of AI and multi-agent systems for social good.”

ACM Fellow Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery

“For contributions to the theory and practice of multi-agent systems, teamwork and security games.”

AAAI Fellow Elected fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

“For significant contributions to theory and software infrastructure for multi-agent systems and pioneering applications in teamwork systems.”

ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award

An annual award for excellence in research in the area of autonomous agents, specifically intended to recognize researchers whose current research is influencing the field. From the award text: “Dr. Tambe made seminal contributions to the theory, applications, and software infrastructure in the area of teamwork, which has become a flourishing research area in multi agent systems”. Award winners receive an honorarium and are invited to give a talk at the annual International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS).

Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice

Awarded at the annual meeting of the INFORMS Operations Research society, the Wagner Prize recognizes excellence in Operations Research practice. Our paper entitled “A Deployed Quantal Response Based Patrol Planning System for the US Coast Guard” won this competition for 2012.

RIST Prize, Military Operations Research Society

The RIST prize recognizes the practical benefits of sound Operations Research. We received the award for “Software Assistants for Patrol Planning at LAX, Federal Air Marshals Service, and Transportation Security Administration”.

“Top Tech 2018” – IEEE

The RIST prize recognizes the practical benefits of sound Operations Research. We received the award for “Software Assistants for Patrol Planning at LAX, Federal Air Marshals Service, and Transportation Security Administration”.

“26 incredible innovations that improved the world in 2015” – Mashable.com

Listed in “26 incredible innovations that improved the world in 2015” by Mashable.com for our work on “How an algorithm can help spread HIV information among homeless teens”.

Orange County Engineering Council Outstanding Project Achievement Award

Orange County Engineering Council Outstanding Project Achievement Award for our project completed with the LA Sheriff’s Department on “Game Theory Metro: Game theoretic scheduling of Metro security patrols”

Meritorious Team Commendation from Commandant of the US Coast Guard

Meritorious Team Commendation from Commandant of the US Coast Guard for creating “an innovative approach to optimize patrol schedules and actions for the Coast Guard Ports, Waterways and Coast Security missions” while serving the Coast Guard Port Resilience for Operational/Tactical Enforcement to Combat Terrorism (PROTECT) Team.

Certificate of Appreciation From the Transportation Security Administration

Certificate of Appreciation From the Transportation Security Administration, Federal Air Marshals Service (FAMS) “in recognition and appreciation of your outstanding achievement in developing the Intelligent Randomization in Scheduling (IRIS) program” to advance the mission of the Office of Law Enforcement/FAMS.

Operational Excellence Award

Operational Excellence Award Commander, First Coast Guard District’s Operational Excellence Award for work on the PROTECT scheduling software to intelligently randomize boat patrols of critical infrastructure around Boston Harbor.

Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation Homeland Security Award

The Foundation is a Federal government agency established by Congress to “encourage and support research, study and labor designed to produce new discoveries in all fields of endeavor for the benefit of mankind.” The award is in the area of border and transportation security.

Commendation, City of Los Angeles

Commendation, City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles World Airports Police Department As a leader of a team of researchers from CREATE (Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events) that developed ARMOR, “Assistant for randomized monitoring over routes”. The commendation states “To merit this commendation you have performed an exceptional service to the Airport police Division, the Los Angeles World Airports and the city of Los Angeles. Your outstanding service facilitates the critical link between the laboratory and the operational world. Thank you for your outstanding contributions to the security of our nation.”

Certificate of Recognition, DHS University Programs

Received by CREATE “The DHS Office of University Programs recognizes CREATE for the outstanding contributions to the security of our nation that the Assistant for Randomized Monitoring over Routes (ARMOR) has made to the police operations at the Los Angeles World Airports”.

IBM Faculty Award

IBM faculty award for research on “Towards smarter government and smarter cities: Computational game theory for public safety and welfare”.

The Okawa Foundation

Research award for research on “Agents and Multiagent Systems”. Among 10 international awards per year given overall by the Okawa foundation (Japan) in areas of telecommunications and information processing.

RoboCup Scientific Challenge Award, RoboCup’99

International Robotic Soccer Tournament, held in conjunction with the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, 1997, for outstanding research at a RoboCup tournament. Led the USC effort.

Third-place prize, RoboCup’97 International Robotic Soccer Competition

Third-place prize, RoboCup’97 International Robotic Soccer Competition (simulation league), held in conjunction with the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, 1997. Led the USC student team; software developed was based on my research in multi-agent teams.

USC Associates Award for Creativity in Research

These are the highest honors the university faculty can bestow on its members for distinguished intellectual and artistic achievements.

Inaugural USC Viterbi School of Engineering Use-Inspired Research Award

Award recognizes significant work in four key areas – scientific understanding, technical knowledge, research promise and societal needs – that has culminated in a demonstrably useful contribution to a problem of national/ societal importance.