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

Announcements

Call for Papers: AGNT (Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems journal) Special Issue on “Agents and Multiagent Systems for Social Good“. Deadline for submissions: 10 October 2018. Editors: Milind Tambe, Fei Fang, Bistra Dilkina. Full Call for Papers here.

Recent News

  • August 6, 2018. I gave a talk on “Integrating Machine Learning with Game Theory for Security” at Cyber Deception Workshop at the University of Maryland and served as a panelist for the Panel “Cyber Deception: A Holistic Approach”.
  • July 16, 2018. Our paper on “What game are we playing? End-to-end learning in normal and extensive form games” won the IJCAI-ECAI 2018 Distinguished Paper!
  • July 14, 2018. I gave a tutorial on “Machine Learning and Game Theory for Security”. Details and presentation materials can be found here.
  • July 10, 2018. I gave a tutorial on “AI for Social Good: A Multiagent Systems Perspective” together with Milind Tambe, Bryan Wilder, Eugene Vorobeychik. Details and presentation material can be found here.
  • July 9, 2018. I gave a talk on “Designing the Game to Play: Optimizing Payoff Structure in Security Games” at ICALP workshop Game Solving: Theory and Practice.
  • July 5, 2018. I gave a talk on “Designing the Game to Play: Optimizing Payoff Structure in Security Games” at ISMP 2018.
  • June 22, 2018. I presented our work on “Exploiting Real-World Data and Human Knowledge for Predicting Wildlife Poaching” at COMPASS 2018.
  • June 20, 2018. I participated as a panelist in AI for Good Roundtable hosted by CMU at Rayburn House Office Building.
  • June 14, 2018. I gave a talk on “Integrating Learning with Game Theory for Societal Challenges” at Google, Pittsburgh.
  • June 12, 2018. I gave a talk on “Integrating Learning with Game Theory for Societal Challenges” at the CMU Robotics Institute Faculty Retreat.
  • May 16, 2018. I was invited to serve on the AI for Earth Panel hosted by Microsoft Research.
  • May 11, 2018. I gave a talk on “Integrating Learning with Game Theory for Societal Challenges” at the Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh.
  • April 27, 2018. I gave a featured presentation at 2018 Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing (CGRB) Spring Conference/Colloquium at Oregon State University (OSU) on “Machine Learning and Game Theory for Biodiversity Conservation”.
  • April 26, 2018. My course “08-537/08-737: AI Methods for Social Good” has been featured in Discover Blog: College AI Courses Get an Ethics Makeover
  • April 18, 2018. My research is featured in Microsoft Green Blog: Species around the world are in trouble, but we can help
  • April 16, 2018. Two paper accepted at IJCAI-ECAI 2018. “Designing the Game to Play: Optimizing Payoff Structure in Security Games”; “What game are we playing? End-to-end learning in normal and extensive form games”
  • April 14, 2018. We organized our Spring 2018 group outing.
  • April 14, 2018. I was invited to speak at the AI Panel during The 7th CMU Summit on US-China Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
  • April 13, 2018. Two papers accepted at COMPASS 2018. “Exploiting Real-World Data and Human Knowledge for Predicting Wildlife Poaching”; “AirSim-W: A Simulation Environment for Wildlife Conservation with UAVs”
  • April 13, 2018. I accepted interview of Iridescent (NGO for STEM education to underserved girls, children and their families), during which I  talked about my work. See Game Theory and Machine Learning: An Interview with Fei Fang
  • April 3, 2018. Our patent “Optimal patrol strategy for protecting moving targets with multiple mobile resources” is granted. [Google Patent Page]
  • March 28, 2018. I gave a talk on “Integrating Learning with Game Theory for Societal Challenges” at Heinz Informal Lunch Seminar at CMU Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
  • March 27, 2018. I gave a talk on “Integrating Machine Learning with Game Theory for Societal Challenges” at Machine Learning Seminar at CMU.
  • February 28, 2018. My research is featured in SiliconRepublic: Researcher Fei Fang shows why AI doesn’t have to be inherently evil
  • February 26, 2018. I gave a talk on “Integrating Machine Learning with Game Theory for Security” at CyLab Distinguished Seminar
  • February 16, 2018. I gave a talk on “Machine Learning for Sustainability” at CMU–Portugal workshop on Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing at Porto, Portugal.
  • February 12, 2018. I gave a talk on “Integrating Machine Learning with Game Theory for Security” at Army Research Lab, Adelphi.
  • February 5, 2018. I presented our work on “Policy Learning for Continuous Space Security Games using Neural Networks” at AAAI 2018. [Slides]
  • January 29, 2018. The “AI Methods for Social Good” course is featured in Digital Trends and Yahoo! Finance: Don’t be fooled by dystopian sci-fi stories: A.I. is becoming a force for good
  • January 24, 2018. Our paper “Deceiving Cyber Adversaries: A Game Theoretic Approach” is accepted to AAMAS 2018.
  • January 18, 2018. The “AI Methods for Social Good” course is featured in Fast Co. Design: You Can Now Take A Class On How To Make AI That Isn’t Evil
  • January 6, 2018. My research is featured in IEEE Spectrum: This AI Hunts Poachers
  • December 29, 2017. Our research on detecting wildlife and human from videos taken by conservation drones is featured at Discover Blog: ‘Predator’ Vision Drones Get AI to Spot Poachers
  • December 1, 2017. I gave an invited talk on “Integrating Machine Learning with Game Theory and Mechanism Design for Security, Sustainability, and Mobility” at the departmental seminar series for 2017-2018 in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering in the State University of New York at Buffalo. [Slides]
  • November 29, 2017. I was interviewed by Cheddar TV (broadcast live) on “Preventing Poaching with Science” [recorded video clip].
  • November 9, 2017. I gave a talk on “Data-Aware Game Theory for Security”at CMU Privacy Seminar.
  • November 7, 2017. Our paper “Policy Learning for Continuous Space Security Games using Neural Networks” is accepted to AAAI 2018 [pdf].
  • November 1, 2017. Our paper “SPOT Poachers in Action: Augmenting Conservation Drones with Automatic Detection in Near Real Time” is accepted to IAAI 2018.
  • October 2017. I served as a Program Chair for AAAI 2018 [pdf].
  • October 23, 2017. I chaired the Special Track on “Data-Centric Models and Applications” at the 8th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec 2017).
  • October 19-October 20, 2017. I went on patrols with rangers in a conservation area in Northeastern China.
  • October 17. Video introduction of Carnegie Mellon Societal Computing Program is online.
  • October 17. I gave a talk at Peking University, China.
  • October 16. I gave a talk (and a guest lecture at “Economics and Computation” course) at Tsinghua University, China.
  • October 10, 2017. I gave a talk at WWF Law Enforcement and Research Workshop, Cambodia.

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