I am an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Software Research in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. [CV]

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For students who are interested in AI for Social Good: I am teaching 08-537 / 08-737: Artificial Intelligence Methods for Social Good in Spring 2018 (Tuesday/Thursday 10:30-11:50).

For prospective students who are planning to apply for Ph.D. programs: If you are interested in working with me, please apply for the Ph.D. programs in CMU/SCS. I am a core faculty in Societal Computing Ph.D. Program, and an affiliated faculty in Machine Learning Department. Students Note: You may apply to several Ph.D. programs at CMU/SCS at once. Mention and explain your interest in my work to ensure that I see your application.

• September 28, 2017. I gave a guest lecture at 05-499 / 05-899 Special Topics: Computing for Good (C4G) on “Data-Aware Game Theory and Mechanism Design for Security, Sustainability and Mobility”.
• September 27, 2017. I gave a talk at DDMLab led by Prof. Coty Gonzalez on “Game Theory for Security and Sustainability – Human Behavior Modeling & Learning”.
• September 21, 2017. My course 08-537 / 08-737: Artificial Intelligence Methods for Social Good (Spring 2018) is scheduled for Tuesday/Thursday 10:30-11:50.
• September 20, 2017. I gave an oral presentation on our recent paper “Taking it for a Test Drive: A Hybrid Spatio-temporal Model for Wildlife Poaching Prediction Evaluated through a Controlled Field Test”[pdf] at ECML PKDD 2017.
• September 12, 2017. I gave a talk on “Data-Aware Game Theory and Mechanism Design for Security, Sustainability and Mobility” at CMU AI Lunch Seminar. Slides can be downloaded here: 20170912_AILunch
• August 30, 2017. I gave a talk on “Machine Learning for Sustainability” at Machine Learning Department Orientation.
• August 25, 2017. We had the first meeting for the Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning reading group.
• August 22, 2017. I gave a talk on “Data-Aware Game Theory and Mechanism Design for Security, Sustainability and Mobility” at 2017 Introductory Course for CS Doctoral Students.
• August 18, 2017. I gave a talk on “Neural Nets for Continuous Security Games” at the University of Southern California.
• August 1, 2017. I started working at CMU.
• I am chairing the Special Track on “Data-Centric Models and Approaches at the 8th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec 2017) which will be held at Vienna, Austria during Oct 23rd – Oct 25th, 2017.
• July 13, 2017. I gave a tutorial on “Game Theory for Protecting Natural Resources” at 2017 Doctoral Consortium on Computational Sustainability, which is held at the University of Southern California. The slides can be downloaded here: FeiFang_20170713_CompSustDC.

• June 26, 2017. Together with Bo An and Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, I gave a tutorial on “Advances in Game Theory for Security and Privacy” at the Eighteenth ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (ACM EC’17), which is held at MIT. The slides of my part can be downloaded here: “Game Theory and Security: Human Behavior Modeling & Learning“
• May 17, 2017. Zheyuan Shi, Fei Fang. Optimizing Peer Teaching to Enhance Team Performance. Our paper is chosen as one of the best papers in the First International Workshop on Teams in Multiagent Systems (TEAMAS) which is held jointly with AAMAS 2017. It has been selected for publication in the AAMAS 2017 Workshops Best Papers volume to be published by Springer.
• May 17, 2017. I visited the University of New Hampshire and gave a seminar talk on “Game-Theoretic Approaches for Real-World Security and Sustainability Challenges”
• May 11, 2017. I won the Best Dissertation Award in Computer Science and the William F. Ballhaus, Jr. Prize for Excellence in Graduate Engineering Research at the University of Southern California
• May 5, 2017. I gave a talk in the Computational Sustainability Virtual Seminar Series on “Game-Theoretic Approaches for Sustainability Challenges”

• March 27, 2017. My dissertation “Towards Addressing Spatio-Temporal Aspects in Security Games” was selected as the runner-up for IFAAMAS-16 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award
• March 27-March 29, 2017. I am co-chairing the AAAI 2017 Spring Symposium on AI for Social Good (AISOC) held at Stanford University. Videos available here. I also gave the opening talk for Computational Sustainability session

• February 2017. I was invited to give a talk on “Win a Game to Build a Better World” at Women Engineers Code (WECode) Conference.
• February 2017. I served as a PC member of the Eighteenth ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC’17)

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