Kevin Leyton-Brown

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Kevin Leyton-Brown
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Born (1975-05-12) May 12, 1975 (age 50)
Canada
Alma mater McMaster University
Stanford University
AwardsNSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship
Scientific career
Fields Computer Science, Economics
Institutions University of British Columbia
Doctoral advisor Yoav Shoham
Website https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~kevinlb/

Kevin Leyton-Brown (born May 12, 1975) is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. [1]

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Education

He received his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 2003. [2]

Career

Leyton-Brown co-teaches a popular game theory course on Coursera.org, [3] along with Matthew O. Jackson and Yoav Shoham. [4] Leyton-Brown serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, [5] the Artificial Intelligence journal, [6] and ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, [7] and was program chair for the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce in 2012. [8]

Leyton-Brown's research is at the intersection of computer science and microeconomics, addressing computational problems in economic contexts and incentive issues in multiagent systems. He also studies the application of machine learning to the automated design and analysis of algorithms for solving hard computational problems. In 2023, Leyton-Brown was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. [9]

Awards and honors

Leyton-Brown and coauthors have received the IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize, [10] the ACM SIGKDD test-of-time award for his work on Auto-WEKA, [11] and numerous medals in international SAT competitions (2003–12). [12] [13]

He was the recipient of a 2014 NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, [14] a 2013/14 Killam Teaching Prize, [15] and a 2013 Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize from the Canadian Association of Computer Science. [16]

He was elected an AAAI Fellow [17] and an ACM Distinguished Member in 2018. [18]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ "Kevin Leyton-Brown's Home Page". Cs.ubc.ca. 2013-01-19. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
  2. ↑ "The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Kevin Leyton-Brown". Genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
  3. ↑ "Game Theory Online". Game-theory-class.org. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
  4. ↑ "UBC's first MOOC attracts 130,000 registrants &#124". Science.ubc.ca. 2013-01-31. Archived from the original on 2013-02-14. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
  5. ↑ "JAIR Editorial Board". JAIR. Archived from the original on 2013-03-02. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
  6. ↑ "Artificial Intelligence Editorial Board". Journals.elsevier.com. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
  7. ↑ "ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation Editorial Board". Teac.acm.org. Archived from the original on 2013-02-15. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
  8. ↑ "13th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce". Sigecom.org. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
  9. ↑ "TEN UBC FACULTY MEMBERS ELECTED TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA". University of British Columbia. September 5, 2023. Retrieved September 17, 2023.
  10. ↑ "IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Award Recipients". JAIR. 2012-07-24. Archived from the original on 2013-01-12. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
  11. ↑ "KDD 2023 - Awards". kdd.org.
  12. ↑ SATComp Organizing committee. "International SAT Competitions". Satcompetition.org. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
  13. ↑ "SAT Challenge 2012". Archived from the original on 2014-01-15. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
  14. ↑ "NSERC - E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowships - Dr. Kevin Leyton-Brown". Nserc-crsng.gc.ca. 2014-02-03. Retrieved 2014-08-17.
  15. ↑ "Killam Teaching Prize Winners - Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic". Vpacademic.ubc.ca. 2014-05-06. Archived from the original on 2016-04-24. Retrieved 2014-08-17.
  16. ↑ "Awards 2013 - CACS/AIC - Canadian Association of Computer Science". Cacsaic.ca. Archived from the original on 2014-11-01. Retrieved 2014-08-17.
  17. ↑ "Elected AAAI Fellows". AAAI. Retrieved 2024-01-05.
  18. ↑ Jim Ormond (November 7, 2018). "2018 ACM Distinguished Members Recognized for Contributions that Have Revolutionized How We Live, Work and Play: Major Achievements in Computer Engineering, Education and Science Have Contributed to Some of Today's Most Exciting Technologies". Association for Computing Machinery . Retrieved January 9, 2026.
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