A Recommender System for Crowdsourcing Food Rescue Platforms Zheyuan Ryan Shi, Leah Lizarondo, Fei Fang In WWW-21: 30th The Web Conference
Discovering Diverse Multi-Agent Strategic Behavior via Reward Randomization Zhenggang Tang, Chao Yu, Boyuan Chen, Huazhe Xu, Xiaolong Wang, Fei Fang, Simon Shaolei Du, Yu Wang, Yi Wu In ICLR-21: the Ninth International Conference on Learning Representations
Data-Driven Multimodal Patrol Planning for Anti-poaching Weizhe Chen, Weinan Zhang, Duo Liu, Weiping Liu, Xiaojun Shi, Fei Fang In IAAI-21: The Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Harnessing Social Media to Identify Homeless Youth At-Risk of Substance Use Zi-Yi Dou, Anamika Barman-Adhikari, Fei Fang, Amulya Yadav In AAAI-21: The Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Dual-Mandate Patrols: Multi-Armed Bandits for Green Security Lily Xu, Elizabeth Bondi, Fei Fang, Andrew Perrault, Kai Wang, Milind Tambe In AAAI-21: The Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence [ArXiv][code] Best Paper Runner-Up
Iterative Bounding MDPs: Learning Interpretable Policies via Non-Interpretable Methods Nicholay Topin, Stephanie Milani, Fei Fang, Manuela Veloso In AAAI-21: The Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
2020
Mitigating Manipulation in Peer Review via Randomized Reviewer Assignments Steven Jecmen, Hanrui Zhang, Ryan Liu, Nihar Shah, Vincent Conitzer, Fei Fang In NeurIPS-20: Thirty-fourth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems [ArXiv][NeurIPS]
Deep Archimedean Copulas Chun Kai Ling, Fei Fang, Zico Kolter In NeurIPS-20: Thirty-fourth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems [ArXiv][NeurIPS]
Learning and Planning in the Feature Deception Problem Zheyuan Ryan Shi, Ariel D. Procaccia, Kevin S. Chan, Sridhar Venkatesan, Noam Ben-Asher, Nandi O. Leslie, Charles Kamhoua, Fei Fang In GameSec-20: the 11th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security [ArXiv]
Harnessing the Power of Deception in Attack Graph-Based Security Games Stephanie Milani, Weiran Shen, Kevin S. Chan, Sridhar Venkatesan, Nandi O. Leslie, Charles Kamhoua, Fei Fang In GameSec-20: the 11th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security [GameSec]
When to Follow the Tip: Security Games with Strategic Informants Weiran Shen, Weizhe Chen, Taoan Huang, Rohit Singh, Fei Fang In IJCAI-PCAI-20: the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence –Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence [IJCAI version]
Green Security Game with Community Engagement Taoan Huang, Weiran Shen, David Zeng, Tianyu Gu, Rohit Singh, Fei Fang In AAMAS-20: the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, May 2020 [AAMAS version][ArXiv version]
Artificial Intelligence for Social Good: A Survey Zheyuan Ryan Shi, Claire Wang, Fei Fang [ArXiv]
Evolutionary Population Curriculum for Scaling Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Qian Long*, Zihan Zhou*, Abhinav Gupta, Fei Fang, Yi Wu†, Xiaolong Wang† In ICLR-20: The Eighth International Conference on Learning Representations [ArXiv][Code]
AI for Social Impact: Learning and Planning in the Data-to-Deployment Pipeline Andrew Perrault, Fei Fang, Arunesh Sinha, Milind Tambe To appear in AI Magazine [ArXiv version]
To Signal or Not To Signal: Exploiting Uncertain Real-Time Information in Signaling Games for Security and Sustainability Elizabeth Bondi, Hoon Oh, Haifeng Xu, Fei Fang, Bistra Dilkina, Milind Tambe In AAAI-20: The Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence [AAAI version][Code Repo]
Draining the Water Hole: Mitigating Social Engineering Attacks with CyberTWEAK Zheyuan Ryan Shi, Aaron Schlenker, Brian Hay, Daniel Bittleston, Siyu Gao, Emily Peterson, John Trezza, Fei Fang In IAAI-20: The Thirty-Second Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence [IAAI version]
Improving Efficiency of Volunteer-Based Food Rescue Operations Zheyuan Ryan Shi∗, Yiwen Yuan∗, Kimberly Lo, Leah Lizarondo, Fei Fang In IAAI-20: The Thirty-Second Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence [IAAI version]
2019
Efficient Regret Minimization Algorithm for Extensive-Form Correlated Equilibrium Gabriele Farina, Chun Kai Ling, Fei Fang, Tuomas Sandholm In NeurIPS-19: The Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems [NeurIPS version|ArXiv version] Spotlight presentation (2.5% of submissions)
Correlation in Extensive-Form Games: Saddle-Point Formulation and Benchmarks Gabriele Farina, Chun Kai Ling, Fei Fang, Tuomas Sandholm In NeurIPS-19: The Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems [NeurIPS version|ArXiv version]
The Cat-and-Mouse Dynamics of Getting Around the Law Daria Roithmayr, Justin Chin, Fei Fang and Bruce Levin In CSS-19: The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas 10th Anniversary International Conference
Modeling Observability in Adaptive Systems to Defend Against Advanced Persistent Threats Cody Kinneer, Ryan Wagner, Fei Fang, Claire Le Goues and David Garlan In MEMOCODE-19: The 17th ACM-IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for System Design [pdf|MEMOCODE version]
Computational Sustainability: Computing for a Better World and a Sustainable Future Carla Gomes, Thomas Dietterich, Christopher Barrett, Jon Conrad, Bistra Dilkina, Stefano Ermon, Fei Fang, Andrew Farnsworth, Alan Fern, Xiaoli Fern, Daniel Fink, Douglas Fisher, Alexander Flecker, Daniel Freund, Angela Fuller, John Gregoire, John Hopcroft, Steve Kelling, Zico Kolter, Warren Powell, Nicole Sintov, John Selker, Bart Selman, Daniel Sheldon, David Shmoys, Milind Tambe, Weng-Keen Wong, Christopher Wood, Xiaojian Wu, Yexiang Xue, Amulya Yadav, Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Mary Lou Zeeman In Communications of the ACM, September 2019, Vol. 62 No. 9, Pages 56-65 10.1145/3339399 Cover Article of the September 2019 Issue of CACM [CACM text version|CACM pdf version]
DeepFP for Finding Nash Equilibrium in Continuous Action Spaces Nitin Kamra, Umang Gupta, Kai Wang, Fei Fang, Yan Liu, Milind Tambe In GameSec-19: The 10th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security [pdf|GameSec version]
Cyber Camouflage Games for Strategic Deception Omkar Thakoor, Milind Tambe, Phebe Vayanos, Haifeng Xu, Christopher Kiekintveld, Fei Fang In GameSec-19: The 10th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security [pdf|GameSec version]
A Robot’s Expressive Language Affects Human Strategy and Perceptions in a Competitive Game Aaron M. Roth, Samantha Reig, Umang Bhatt, Jonathan Shulgach, Tamara Amin, Afsaneh Doryab, Fei Fang, Manuela Veloso In RO-MAN-19: The 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication [ArXiv version] Media coverage: [CMU Stories][Business Insider][The Irish Times]
Integrating Learning with Game Theory for Societal Challenges Fei Fang In IJCAI-19: The 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Early Career Spotlight Track) [slides]
Dynamic Trip-Vehicle Dispatch with Scheduled and On-Demand Requests Taoan Huang, Bohui Fang, Xiaohui Bei, Fei Fang In UAI-19: The Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence [UAI version|ArXiv version]
Using Game Theory in Real-Time in the Real World: A Conservation Case Study (Demo) Elizabeth Bondi, Hoon Oh, Haifeng Xu, Fei Fang, Bistra Dilkina, Milind Tambe In System Demos at AAMAS-19: the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, May 2019 Winner of Best Application System Demo
Spatio-Temporal Pricing for Ridesharing Platforms Hongyao Ma, Fei Fang, David C. Parkes In EC-19: The 20th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation [EC version|ArXiv version]
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Green Security Games with Real-Time Information Yufei Wang, Zheyuan Ryan Shi, Lantao Yu, Yi Wu, Rohit Singh, Lucas Joppa, Fei Fang In AAAI-19: The Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence [pdf|AAAI version|poster|slides|code]
Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Minimax Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient Shihui Li, Yi Wu, Xinyue Cui, Honghua Dong, Fei Fang, Stuart Russell In AAAI-19: The Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence [pdf|AAAI version|poster|slides|code]
On the Inducibility of Stackelberg Equilibrium in Security Games Qingyu Guo, Jiarui Gan, Fei Fang, Long Tran-Thanh, Milind Tambe, Bo An In AAAI-19: The Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence [pdf|ArXiv version]
Large Scale Learning of Agent Rationality in Two-Player Zero-Sum Games Chun Kai Ling, Fei Fang, Zico Kolter In AAAI-19: The Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence [pdf|ArXiv version]
2018
AirSim-W: A Simulation Environment for Wildlife Conservation with UAVs
Elizabeth Bondi, Debadeepta Dey, Ashish Kapoor, Jim Piavis, Shital Shah, Fei Fang, Bistra Dilkina, Robert Hannaford, Arvind Iyer, Lucas Joppa, Milind Tambe
In COMPASS-18: ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies
[pdf]
Exploiting Data and Human Knowledge for Predicting Wildlife Poaching
Swaminathan Gurumurthy, Lantao Yu, Chenyan Zhang, Yongchao Jin, Weiping Li, Xiaodong Zhang, Fei Fang
In COMPASS-18: ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies
[pdf|ArXiv version]
Stackelberg Security Games: Looking Beyond a Decade of Success
Arunesh Sinha, Fei Fang, Bo An, Christopher Kiekintveld, Milind Tambe
In IJCAI-ECAI-18: The 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
[pdf]
What game are we playing? End-to-end learning in normal and extensive form games
Chun Kai Ling, Fei Fang, J. Zico Kolter
In IJCAI-ECAI-18: The 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
[pdf|IJCAI version|ArXiv version|code] Winner of Distinguished Paper
Designing the Game to Play: Optimizing Payoff Structure in Security Games Zheyuan Ryan Shi, Ziye Tang, Long Tran-Thanh, Rohit Singh, Fei Fang
In IJCAI-ECAI-18: The 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
[pdf|IJCAI version|ArXiv version|code]
Deceiving Cyber Adversaries: A Game Theoretic Approach
Aaron Schlenker, Omkar Thakoor, Haifeng Xu, Fei Fang, Milind Tambe, Long Tran-Thanh, Phebe Vayanos, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik
In AAMAS-18: The 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
[pdf]
On the Weakness of Strong Stackelberg Equilibrium for Security Games (Extended Abstract) Qingyu Guo, Jiarui Gan, Fei Fang, Long Tran-Thanh, Milind Tambe, Bo An
In AAMAS-18: The 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
[pdf]
Policy Learning for Continuous Space Security Games using Neural Networks
Nitin Kamra, Umang Gupta, Fei Fang, Yan Liu, Milind Tambe
In AAAI-18: The Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, February 2018
[pdf|AAAI version|slides]
SPOT Poachers in Action: Augmenting Conservation Drones with Automatic Detection in Near Real Time
Elizabeth Bondi, Fei Fang, Mark Hamilton, Debarun Kar, Donnabell Dmello, Jongmoo Choi, Robert Hannaford, Arvind Iyer, Lucas Joppa, Milind Tambe, Ram Nevatia
In IAAI-18: The Thirtieth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, February 2018
[pdf|IAAI version]
2017
VIOLA: Video Labeling Application for Security Domains
Elizabeth Bondi, Fei Fang, Debarun Kar, Venil Noronha, Donnabell Dmello, Milind Tambe, Arvind Iyer, Robert Hannaford
In GameSec-17: The 8th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security
[pdf|GameSec version|slides]
Optimal Patrol Planning for Green Security Games with Black-Box Attackers
Haifeng Xu, Benjamin Ford, Fei Fang, Bistra Dilkina, Andrew Plumptre, Milind Tambe, Margaret Driciru, Fred Wanyama, Aggrey Rwetsiba, Mustapha Nsubaga, Joshua Mabonga
In GameSec-17: The 8th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security
[pdf|GameSec version|slides]
Taking it for a Test Drive: A Hybrid Spatio-temporal Model for Wildlife Poaching Prediction Evaluated through a Controlled Field Test
Shahrzad Gholami, Benjamin Ford, Fei Fang, Andrew Plumptre, Milind Tambe, Margaret Driciru, Fred Wanyama, Aggrey Rwetsiba, Mustapha Nsubaga, Joshua Mabonga
In ECML-PKDD 2017: The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases
[pdf|ECML version|slides]
Optimizing Peer Teaching to Enhance Team Performance.
Zheyuan Shi, Fei Fang
In TEAMAS-17: First International Workshop on Teams in Multiagent Systems held at AAMAS 2017.
In Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: AAMAS 2017 Workshops, Best Papers, San Paulo, Brazil, May 8-12, 2017 Winner of Best Paper [pdf|AAMAS version|bib]
Predicting Poaching for Wildlife Protection
Fei Fang, Thanh H. Nguyen, Arunesh Sinha, Shahrzad Gholami, Andrew Plumptre, Lucas Joppa, Milind Tambe, Margaret Driciru, Fred Wanyama, Aggrey Rwetsiba, Rob Critchlow, Colin Beale.
In IBM Journal of Research and Development (Volume: 61, Issue: 6, Nov.-Dec. 1 2017)
[pdf|IBM Journal version|bib]
Cloudy with a Chance of Poaching: Adversary Behavior Modeling and Forecasting with Real-World Poaching Data
Debarun Kar, Benjamin Ford, Shahrzad Gholami, Fei Fang, Andrew Plumptre, Milind Tambe, Margaret Driciru, Fred Wanyama, Aggrey Rwetsiba
In AAMAS-17: The 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, May 2017
[pdf|appendix|AAMAS version]
Keeping it Real: Using Real-World Problems to Teach AI to Diverse Audiences
Nicole Sintov, Debarun Kar, Thanh Nguyen, Fei Fang, Kevin Hoffman, Arnaud Lyet, Milind Tambe
AI Magazine, 38(2):35-47, 2017.
[pdf|AI Magazine version]
PAWS – A Deployed Game-Theoretic Application to Combat Poaching
Fei Fang, Thanh H. Nguyen, Rob Pickles, Wai Y. Lam, Gopalasamy R. Clements, Bo An, Amandeep Singh, Brian C. Schwedock, Milind Tambe, Andrew Lemieux
AI Magazine, 38(1):23-36, 2017.
[pdf|AI Magazine version]
Trends and Applications in Stackelberg Security Games
Debarun Kar, Thanh H. Nguyen, Fei Fang, Matthew Brown, Arunesh Sinha, Milind Tambe, Albert Xin Jiang
Handbook on Dynamic Game Theory (Edited by Tamer Bashar, Georges Zaccour), Springer, 2017. DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-27335-8_27-1.
[pdf|Springer version]
PAWS: Game-Theory Based Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security
Fei Fang, Benjamin Ford, Rong Yang, Milind Tambe, Andrew Lemieux
Conservation Criminology (Edited by Meredith Gore). Chapter 10. Wiley, 2017.
[pdf|Wiley version]
2016
Towards Addressing Spatio-Temporal Aspects in Security Games (Ph.D. Thesis) Fei Fang
[pdf|USC Digital Library version|bib] Runner-up for IFAAMAS-16 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award
Best Dissertation Award in Computer Science at the University of Southern California
Comparing Human Behavior Models in Repeated Stackelberg Security Games: An Extended Study
Debarun Kar, Fei Fang, Francesco M. Delle Fave, Nicole Sintov, Milind Tambe, Arnaud Lyet
In AIJ: Artificial Intelligence
[pdf|AIJ version|bib]
Green Security Games: Apply Game Theory to Addressing Green Security Challenges
Fei Fang, Thanh H. Nguyen
In ACM SIGecom Exchanges, Volume 15 Issue 1, July 2016, Pages 78-83
[pdf|SIGecom version|bib]
Combining Graph Contraction and Strategy Generation for Green Security Games
Anjon Basak, Fei Fang, Thanh Nguyen and Christopher Kiekintveld
In GameSec-16: The 7th International Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security, November 2016
[pdf|GameSec version|bib|slides]
Three Strategies to Success: Learning Adversary Models in Security Games
Nika Haghtalab, Fei Fang, Thanh H. Nguyen, Arunesh Sinha, Ariel Procaccia, Milind Tambe
In IJCAI-16: The 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2016
[pdf(with appendix)|IJCAI version|bib]
Deploying PAWS: Field Optimization of the Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security
Fei Fang, Thanh H. Nguyen, Rob Pickles, Wai Y. Lam, Gopalasamy R. Clements, Bo An, Amandeep Singh, Milind Tambe, Andrew Lemieux
In IAAI-16: The Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, February 2016 Winner of Innovative Application Award
[pdf|IAAI version|bib]
From the Lab to the Classroom and Beyond: Extending a Game-Based Research Platform for Teaching AI to Diverse Audiences
Nicole Sintov, Debarun Kar, Thanh H. Nguyen, Fei Fang, Kevin Hoffman, Arnaud Lyet, Milind Tambe
In EAAI-16: The Sixth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, February 2016
[pdf|EAAI version|bib]
2015
When Security Games Go Green: Designing Defender Strategies to Prevent Poaching and Illegal Fishing
Fei Fang, Peter Stone, Milind Tambe
In IJCAI-15: the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2015 Outstanding Paper Award Winner in IJCAI-15 Computational Sustainability Track [pdf|IJCAI version|bib]
”A Game of Thrones”: When Human Behavior Models Compete in Repeated Stackelberg Security Games
Debarun Kar, Fei Fang, Francesco Maria Delle Fave, Nicole Sintov, Milind Tambe
In AAMAS-15: The Fourteenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, May 2015
[pdf|AAMAS version|bib]
Planning Defender Strategies Against Attackers In Domains Involving Frequent Adversary Interaction (Extended Abstract)
Fei Fang, Peter Stone, Milind Tambe
In AAMAS-15: The Fourteenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, May 2015
[pdf|AAMAS version|bib]
2014
Solving Zero-Sum Security Games in Discretized Spatio-Temporal Domains
Haifeng Xu, Fei Fang, Albert Xin Jiang, Vincent Conitzer, Shaddin Dughmi, Milind Tambe
In AAAI-14: The Twenty-Eighth Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2014
[pdf|AAAI version|bib]
Robust protection of fisheries with COmPASS
William Haskell, Debarun Kar, Fei Fang, Milind Tambe, Sam Cheung, Elizabeth Denicola
In IAAI-14: The Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, July 2014
[pdf|IAAI version|bib]
2013
Protecting Moving Targets with Multiple Mobile Resources
Fei Fang, Albert X. Jiang, Milind Tambe
In JAIR: Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 48:583-634, 2013
[pdf|JAIR version|bib]
Optimal Patrol Strategy for Protecting Moving Targets with Multiple Mobile Resources
Fei Fang, Albert Xin Jiang, Milind Tambe
In AAMAS-13: The Twelfth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, May 2013
[pdf|AAMAS version|bib]
2012
Patrol Strategies to Maximize Pristine Forest Area
Matthew P. Johnson, Fei Fang, Milind Tambe, Heidi Jo Albers
In AAAI-12: The Twenty-Sixth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Computational Sustainability Track), July 2012
[pdf|AAAI version|bib]
Designing Better Strategies against Human Adversaries in Graph-Based Security Games (Extended Abstract)
Rong Yang, Albert Xin Jiang, Fei Fang, Rajiv Maheswaran, Milind Tambe
In AAMAS-12: The Eleventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, June 2012. (short paper)
[pdf|AAMAS version|bib]