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Awards
BEST PAPER, VIDEO & POSTER AWARDS
BEST PAPER AWARDS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE CONFERENCES
2023
IAAI Innovative Application Award
Paper Title: “Impact of Mobile Health Programs: SAHELI for Maternal and Child Care”
2022
Best paper award, AI for Good track, International Joint Conference on AI(IJCAI 2022)
Paper Title: “ADVISER: AI-Driven Vaccination Intervention Optimiser for Increasing Vaccine Uptake in Nigeria”
2021
Honorable Mention for the Best Application Paper in the 2021 IISE Transactions
Paper Title: “Allocating outreach resources for disease control in a dynamic population with information spread”
Best Paper Award at NeurIPS 2021 Workshop on Machine Learning in Public Health (MLPH)
Paper Title: “Restless Bandits in the Field: Real-World Study for Improving Maternal and Child Health Outcomes”, Workshop on Machine Learning in Public Health (MLPH), NeurIPS 2021″
Best paper, AAAI Conference on AI (AAAI 2021)
Finalist for Best paper, AAAI conference on AI (AAAI 2021): Paper Title: “Dual-mandate patrols: Multi-armed bandits for green security”.
Finalist for Best paper, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2021)
Finalist for Best paper, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2021): Paper Title: “Active Screening for Recurrent Diseases: A Reinforcement Learning Approach”.
2020
Best Lightning Paper, NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Public Health
Paper title: “Incorporating Healthcare Motivated Constraints in Restless Bandit Based Resource Allocation”
Best poster award, NeurIPS workshop on Machine Learning for Developing World ML4D
Paper title: “Enhancing Poaching Predictions for Under-Resourced wildlife Conservation Parks Using Remote Sensing Imagery”.
Best Paper Award, International Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec)
Paper title: “Exploiting Bounded Rationality in Risk-based Cyber Camouflage Games”
Best Student Paper Award, Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) Workshop
Paper title: “Large-scale clinical trial of an AI-augmented intervention for HIV prevention in youth experiencing homelessness” (first author: Bryan Wilder, PhD student)
Best Paper Award, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2020 (HICSS 2020)
Best paper award, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2020 (HICSS 2020) Paper title: “Adaptive Cyber Deception: Cognitively Informed Signaling for Cyber Defense”
Finalist for Best paper, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2020)
Finalist for Best paper, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2020): Paper Title: “Influence maximization in unknown social networks: Learning Policies for Effective Graph Sampling”.
Best Paper Award, International Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec 2020)
Best paper award, International Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec 2020). Paper title: “Exploiting Bounded Rationality in Risk-based Cyber Camouflage Games”
2019
Best Student Paper Award, International Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec 2019)
Best student paper award, International Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec 2019) Paper title: “When players affect target values: Modeling and Solving Dynamic Partially Observable Security Games” (first author: Xinrun Wang, PhD student)
Finalist for Best Student paper, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2019)
Finalist for Best Student paper, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2019): Paper Title: “Adaptive Cyber Deception: Cognitively Informed Signaling for Cyber Defense”.
Best Paper Award, OptMAS
Best Paper Award, OptMAS workshop at International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2019)
2018
Finalist for Best Student paper, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018)
Finalist for Best Student paper, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018): Paper Title: “End to End Influence Maximization in the Field”. (first author: Bryan Wilder, PhD student)
2017
Best Video, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Video title: “HEALER: Using AI to Raise HIV Awareness among Homeless Youth”
Finalist for Best Paper, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems(AA- MAS 2017)
Finalist for Best Paper, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems(AA- MAS 2017): Paper Title: “Influence Maximization in the Field: The Arduous Journey from Emerging to Deployed Applications”.
2016
Best Application Video, AAAI Conference on Articial Intelligence (AAAI 2016)
Video Title: “Save the Wildlife, Save the Planet: Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security (PAWS)”
Deployed Application Award, Innovative Applications of Artiï¬cial Intelligence (IAAI) 2016
Paper Title: “Deploying PAWS: Field Optimization of the Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security”
2015
Outstanding Paper, IJCAI’2015 Computational Sustainability, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
The paper is entitled “When Security Games Go Green: Designing Defender Strategies to Prevent Poaching and Illegal Fishing”.
2013
Finalist for Best paper, AAMAS’2013 Our paper from the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2013)
A finalist for the best paper award. The paper is entitled “Game-theoretic Randomization for Security Patrolling with Dynamic Execution Uncertainty”.
2012
Best paper, AAMAS’2012 Innovative Applications International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2012)
Innovative applications best paper award. The paper is entitled “PROTECT: A Deployed Game Theoretic System to Protect the Ports of the United States”.
2011
Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2011) Best Paper Award
The paper is entitled “Empirical Evaluation of Computational Emotional Contagion Models”.
Best Paper AAMAS’2011 Innovative Applications
Our paper from the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011) won the innovative applications best paper award. The paper is entitled “GUARDS – Game Theoretic Security Allocation on a National Scale”.
2009
Best Paper, AAMAS’2009 Industry
Our paper from the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2009) won the industry track best paper award. The paper is entitled “IRIS – A Tool for Strategic Security Allocation in Transportation Networks”
2008
Best paper, International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2008)
Best Paper Award, “Multiagent Adjustable Autonomy Framework (MAAF) for multirobot multihuman teams”
Finalist for Best Paper, AAMAS 2008, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008)
A finalist for the industry track best paper award. The paper is entitled “Deployed ARMOR protection: The Application of a Game Theoretic Model for Security at the Los Angeles International Airport”
2007
Best Paper, DCR’2007, International Workshop on Distributed Constraint Reasoning (DCR 2007)
Held in conjunction with IJCAI’2007, won the best paper award. The paper is entitled “Lower bounds on the quality of k-optimal DCOP solutions with respect to the global optimum”.
2005
Best Paper, SASEMAS’2005, International Workshop on Safety and Security in Multiagent Systems (SASEMAS’2005)
Selected as the best paper entitled “Safety in multiagent systems via policy randomization”.
Finalist for Best Paper Award, CEEMAS’2005
Our paper from the Central and Eastern European Conference on Agents and Multiagent Systems 2005 (CEEMAS’2005) finalist for Best Paper Award. This paper is entitled “On Communication in Solving Distributed Constraint Satisfaction problems”.
2003
Finalist for Best Student Paper, AAMAS’2003
Our paper from the International Joint Conference on Agents and Multiagent Systems 2003 (AAMAS’2003) finalist for Best Student Paper Award. This paper is entitled “An asynchronous complete method for distributed constraint optimization” (first author: Pragnesh Jay Modi, PhD student).
2002
Best Paper, AAMAS’02, International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagents (AAMAS’02)
Chosen the best paper (out of approx. 150 papers presented at the conference). The paper is entitled “Multiagent teamwork: Analyzing the complexity and optimality of key theories and models”.
1999
Best of Agents’99, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems Journal 1999 (Agents’99)
Published in the “Best of Agents’99” special issue of the Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems Journal. This paper is entitled “On being a teammate: Experiences acquired in the design of RoboCup teams”.
Best of ICMAS’98, International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems 1998 (ICMAS’ 98)
Published in the “Best of ICMAS’98” special issue of the Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Journal. This paper is entitled “Towards flexible teamwork in persistent teams”. Research: Best Paper Award Finalists in Computer Science Conferences
Best Paper Awards & Finalists in Operations Research Meetings
2013
Finalist, Best Student Poster, Conference on Validating Models of Adversary Behavior
Finalist, Best Student Poster, Conference on Validating Models of Adversary Behavior. Our poster at the first Conference on Validating Models of Adversary Behavior was finalist for best student poster. The poster is entitled “Optimal Patrol Strategy for Protecting Moving Targets with Multiple Mobile Resources”. (first author: Fei Fang, PhD student).
2010
Finalist, EURO Operations Research Conference Excellence in Practice Award EEPA’2010
Our paper from the journal “Interfaces” selected to be a finalist for the EEPA’2010 award. The paper is entitled “Software Assistants for Randomized Patrol Planning for The LAX Airport Police and The Federal Air Marshals Service.”
Student Merit Award, Security and Defense, Society for Risk Analysis (SRA)
Student Merit Award, Security and Defense, Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) meeting. Our abstract at the SRA annual meeting won the student merit award. The abstract is entitled “Research allocation decisions against adaptive adversaries”. (first author: James Pita, PhD student).
2009
Best Student Poster, DHS Third Annual University Network Summit
Best Student Poster, DHS Third Annual University Network Summit. Our poster at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) University Network Summit won first place in the student poster competition. This poster is entitled “Strategic allocation of Federal Air Marshals”. (first author: Jason Tsai, PhD student).