Sevan Gregory Ficici, Postdoctoral Research Fellow AI Research Group • Computer Science School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University

sevan AT eecs.harvard.edu

Maxwell-Dworkin 242 • 33 Oxford Street • Cambridge MA 02138

Ph.D Brandeis University 2004 • Complex Systems Summer School Santa Fe Institute 2000 • MA Eastman School of Music 1990 • BM Cleveland Institute of Music 1988 • The Roeper School

Research

I've come to Harvard to work with Avi Pfeffer on computational models of human decision-making in games of strategy. This work is being done with the Colored Trails environment.

I'm also continuing my work in evolutionary computation, particularly coevolution (papers at Brandeis).

Dissertation: Solution Concepts in Coevolutionary Algorithms

Curriculum Vitae

Teaching

CS285 Multiagent Systems Spring 2008

Recent Publications

Ficici, S.G., Parkes, D.C., and Pfeffer, A. (2008) Learning and Solving Many-Player Games through a Cluster-Based Representation, 24th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI).

Ficici, S.G. and Pfeffer, A. (2008) Modeling how Humans Reason about Others with Partial Information, Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS).

Ficici, S.G. and Pfeffer, A. (2008) Simultaneously Modeling Humans' Preferences and their Beliefs about Others' Preferences, Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS).

Ficici, S.G. (2008) Multi-Objective Optimization and Coevolution. In J. Knowles, D. Corne and K. Deb, editors, Multi-Objective Problem Solving from Nature: From Concepts to Applications. Springer, 2008.

Ficici, S.G. and Pollack, J.B. (2007) Evolutionary Dynamics of Finite Populations in Games with Polymorphic Fitness-Equilibria, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 247(3): 426-441.

Ficici, S.G. (2006) A Game-Theoretic Investigation of Selection Methods in Two-Population Coevolution, 2006 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, ACM Press.

Ficici, S.G., Melnik, O., Pollack, J.B. (2005) A Game-Theoretic and Dynamical-Systems Analysis of Selection Methods in Coevolution, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 9(6): 580-602.

(Older Publications)

Conferences, Workshops, and Tutorials

Program committee: Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systens (AAMAS 2008).

Co-organizer: 2008 ACM GECCO Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (ECoMASS 2008).

Co-presenter: 2008 ACM GECCO introductory and advanced tutorials on coevolutionary algorithms.

2005-2007

Co-organizer: 2007 ACM GECCO Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (ECoMASS 2007).

Presenter: 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, tutorial on computational modeling of human behavior in games

Co-presenter: 2007 ACM GECCO advanded tutorial on coevolutionary algorithms.

Chair: Coevolution track at the 2006 ACM SIG-EVO Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference.

Co-presenter: 2006 ACM GECCO introductory tutorial on coevolutionary algorithms.

Invited speaker: 2005 AAAI Fall Symposium on Coevolutionary and Coadaptive Systems.