Scholar
Kevin Leyton-Brown
Google Scholar ID: _4dnp0IAAAAJ
Professor, Computer Science, University of British Columbia; Canada CIFAR AI Chair
Citations & Impact
Citations
15,820
H-index
49
i10-index
107
Publications
20
Co-authors
182
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC)
- Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- Associate editor of ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation (ACM-TEAC) and AI Access; former associate editor of Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) and Journal of AI Research (JAIR)
- General Chair of ACM-EC 2023; Program Chair of AAAI 2021 and ACM-EC 2012
- Chair of ACM SIG-Ecom (2015–2019)
- Board member of IFAAMAS (2014–2020)
- Co-authored 'Multiagent Systems: Algorithmic, Game-Theoretic, and Logical Foundations' and 'Essentials of Game Theory: A Concise, Multidisciplinary Introduction' (both with Yoav Shoham)
- Current Chair of the AAAI Conference Committee, responsible for appointing and advising conference leadership
Research Experience
- Long-term visitor at the Simons Institute, UC Berkeley, for the program on Learning and Games (2022)
- Visiting researcher at Microsoft Research New York City and visiting faculty at Technion IIT and Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2018)
- Long-term visitor at the Simons Institute program on Algorithms and Uncertainty (2016); visiting researcher at Microsoft Research New England; visiting faculty at Harvard University
- Long-term visitor at the Simons Institute program on Economics and Computation (2015)
- Sabbatical visits to Makerere University (Uganda) and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2010–11)
- Former member of Yoav Shoham’s Multiagent Group in the Artificial Intelligence Lab, Stanford University
Background
- Canada CIFAR AI Chair
- Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC)
- Research focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence, multiagent systems, game theory, algorithmic economics, and computational social choice
- Director of UBC's Center for AI Decision-making and Action (CAIDA)
- Director of UBC’s Science Research Cluster on AI Methods for Scientific Impact (AIM-SI)
- Associate Member of the Vancouver School of Economics
