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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.
March 19, 2018. I gave a guest lecture on at Societal Computing Practicum 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 17. Video introduction of Carnegie Mellon Societal Computing Program is online.
October 10, 2017. I gave a talk at WWF Law Enforcement and Research Workshop, Cambodia.
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.
August 2017. I served as the Chair of Special Track on “Data-Centric Models and Applications” for 8th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec 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.

July, 2017. I visited USC Center for Artificial Intelligence and Society.

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)

December 2016. I served as a PC member for the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2017) and Doctoral Consortium program
December 9, 2016. I gave a talk at Harvard EconCS Group Lunch Seminar on “Game-Theoretic Approaches for Real-World Security and Sustainability Challenges”
November 19-20, 2016. I attended the CRA-W mentoring workshop.
November 2016. I served as a PC member for AAAI-17 main track and computational sustainability track
November 2016. I updated a post: Get to Know Security Games
September 12, 2016. I gave the first CRCS seminar talk of Fall 2016 semester. Talk video:
July 6 – July 8, 2016. I attended the 4th International Conference on Computational Sustainability (CompSust’16), and gave a talk on “Game Theory for Conservation”. Talk video:
June – July, 2016. Our work on wildlife protection has been featured in
- Elsevier: AI springs into action in surprising places – Artificial intelligence is being used in everything from business intelligence to wildlife protection.
- CompSustNet blog: Computational Sustainability for Everyone: Poaching the Poachers with PAWS.
- National Geographic News: Rangers Use Artificial Intelligence to Fight Poachers.
- Los Angeles Times: More than boots and bullets: This app could help turn the tide on poaching.
- June 6, 2016. I attended the Artificial Intelligence for Social Good workshop co-sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Our work on wildlife protection has been featured in the Environmental Sustainability session (see USC News).
May 27 – June 3, 2016. I served as a coach in the USA Computing Olympiad Summer Camp and gave an enhancement lecture on security games.
May 26, 2016. I visited Georgia Institute of Technology and gave a seminar talk on my research.
May 20, 2016. My next steps are confirmed: June 2016 – June 2017: join Harvard CRCS as a postdoc, working with Prof. David Parkes and Prof. Barbara Grosz. Fall 2017: join CMU/Institute for Software Research as an Assistant Professor.
April 22, 2016. Our work on wildlife protection has been featured in National Science Foundation News: Outwitting Poachers with Artificial Intelligence.
April 19, 2016. I am a co-winner of the Best Research Assistant Award (2015-2016) in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California.
April 8, 2016. I successfully defended my thesis! Thesis title: Towards Addressing Spatio-Temporal Aspects in Security Games