Cheriton School of Computer Science
Language Skills
Language Read Write Speak Understand Peer Review
English Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
French Yes No Yes Yes No
Degrees
- 2004/8 Doctorate, Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University
- 1999/12 Master's non-Thesis, Computer Science, Washington University in St. Louis - 1997/5 Bachelor's Honours, Mathematics, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Recognitions
2016/5 Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize – 2015
Canadian Association of Computer Science/Association informatique canadienne Prize / Award
Awarded by the Canadian Association of Computer Science/Association informatique canadienne to top young computer science academic researchers within 10 years of finishing their Ph.D.
2015/5 University of Waterloo Outstanding Performance Award University of Waterloo
Prize / Award
Awarded to University of Waterloo faculty members for outstanding contribution in teaching and scholarship.
2012/7 - 2015/7 Cheriton Faculty Fellow University of Waterloo Distinction
"The David R. Cheriton Faculty Fellowships are a prestigious form of recognition. The awards support the work of leading faculty in Computer Science with an emphasis on supporting research that addresses problems associated with designing and
implementing efficient and reliable computing systems, along with their effective integration."
User Profile
Research Specialization Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Multiagent Systems, Computational Social Choice, Algorithmic Game Theory, Reasoning Under Uncertainty
Dr. Kate Larson
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Employment
2017/7 Professor
Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Full-time, Professor
Tenure Status: Tenure 2009/7 - 2017/6 Associate Professor
Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Full-time, Associate Professor
Tenure Status: Tenure 2012/1 - 2012/12 Invited Professor
School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Full-time, Visiting Professorship Tenure Status: Non Tenure Track I visited for my sabbatical.
2004/8 - 2009/7 Assistant Professor
Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Full-time, Assistant Professor
Tenure Status: Tenure Track
Leaves of Absence and Impact on Research
2014/1 - 2014/12 Parental, University of Waterloo I was on maternity/parental leave. 2010/9 - 2011/8 Parental, University of Waterloo
I was on parental leave.
Research Funding History
Awarded [n=1] 2013/5 - 2018/5 Principal Applicant
Completed [n=1]
NSERC Discovery Grant, Grant Funding Sources:
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant
Total Funding - 150,000
Portion of Funding Received - 150,000 Funding Competitive?: Yes
2011/9 - 2012/9 Principal Applicant
Sharing of Fire Fighting Resources, Grant Funding Sources:
Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC) Total Funding - 20,000
Portion of Funding Received - 20,000 Funding Competitive?: No
Under Review [n=1]
2018/5 - 2023/4 Decision Making in Heterogeneous Multiagent Systems, Grant Principal Applicant Funding Sources:
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant
Dr. Kate Larson
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Portion of Funding Received - 100 Funding Competitive?: Yes
Student/Postdoctoral Supervision
Master’s Thesis [n=10] 2017/9 - 2019/5
Co-Supervisor
Greg d'Eon (In Progress) , University of Waterloo Student Degree Expected Date: 2019/5
Thesis/Project Title: To be determined
Present Position: Graduate Student, University of Waterloo 2017/9 - 2019/5
Co-Supervisor
Louis Kuang (In Progress) , University of Waterloo Student Degree Expected Date: 2019/5
Thesis/Project Title: To be determined.
Present Position: Graduate Student, University of Waterloo 2017/1 - 2019/5
Principal Supervisor
Adam Schunk (In Progress) , University of Waterloo Student Degree Expected Date: 2019/5
Thesis/Project Title: Information Spread in Large Networks Present Position: Graduate Student, University of Waterloo 2016/9 - 2018/5
Principal Supervisor
Ben Armstrong (In Progress) , University of Waterloo Student Degree Expected Date: 2018/5
Thesis/Project Title: Group Emergence in Multiagent Systems Present Position: Graduate Student, University of Waterloo 2015/1 - 2016/8
Principal Supervisor
Vijay Menon (Completed) , University of Waterloo
Thesis/Project Title: Computational Aspects of Strategic Behaviour in Elections with TopTruncated Ballots
Present Position: Graduate Student, University of Waterloo 2013/9 - 2016/8
Co-Supervisor
Ankit Pat (Completed) , University of Waterloo
Thesis/Project Title: Towards Data-Leveraged Behavioural Policy Design for Alleviating Peak Electricity Demand
Present Position: Senior Software Developer, Genesys 2013/9 - 2016/5
Principal Supervisor
Shengying Pan (Completed) , University of Waterloo
Thesis/Project Title: Dynamic Crowdsourcing Consensus Tasks with Workers That Can Learn
Present Position: Software Engineer at Startup 2010/9 - 2011/12
Principal Supervisor
Simina Branzei (Completed) , University of Waterloo
Thesis/Project Title: Contributions to Network Formation and Matching
Present Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2009/9 - 2012/8
Co-Supervisor
David Steiner (Completed) , University of Waterloo
Thesis/Project Title: Network Bargaining: Creating Stability Using Blocking Sets Present Position: Senior Software Engineer, Google
2009/9 - 2011/8 Principal Supervisor
Yuxin Yu (Completed) , University of Waterloo
Thesis/Project Title: Mechanisms for Dynamic Settings with Restricted Allocations Present Position: Software Engineer, Google
Dr. Kate Larson
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Principal Supervisor
Vijay Menon (In Progress) , University of Waterloo Student Degree Expected Date: 2020/8
Thesis/Project Title: Mechanism Design with Uncertain Preferences Present Position: Graduate Student, University of Waterloo
2016/9 - 2020/8 Co-Supervisor
Mike Schaekermann (In Progress) , University of Waterloo Student Degree Expected Date: 2020/8
Thesis/Project Title: Ambiguity in Crowdsourcing
Present Position: Graduate Student, University of Waterloo 2014/12 - 2017/5
Co-Supervisor
Joanna Drummond (Completed) , University of Toronto
Thesis/Project Title: Stable Matching with Generalized Preference Assumptions: Algorithmic and Incentive Compatibility Challenges
Present Position: System on Chip Design Engineer, Intel 2013/9 - 2016/8
Co-Supervisor
Hadi Hosseini (Completed) , University of Waterloo
Thesis/Project Title: Incentives in One-Sided Matching Problems with Ordinal Preferences Present Position: Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology
2011/9 - 2017/12 Principal Supervisor
Alan Tsang (In Progress) , University of Waterloo Student Degree Expected Date: 2017/12
Thesis/Project Title: Strategic Voting and Social Networks Present Position: Graduate Student, University of Waterloo 2010/9 - 2014/8
Co-Supervisor
Arthur Carvalho (Completed) , University of Waterloo
Thesis/Project Title: Advancements in the Elicitation and Aggregation of Private Information
Present Position: Assistant Professor, Miami University 2008/9 - 2013/8
Principal Supervisor
Lachlan Dufton (Completed) , University of Waterloo
Thesis/Project Title: Stochastic Mechanisms for Truthfulness and Budget Balance in Computational Social Choice
Present Position: Software Engineer, Google Post-doctorate [n=1]
2016/8 - 2017/8 Amirali Salehi-Abari (Completed) , University of Waterloo Co-Supervisor Thesis/Project Title: Subjective Uncertain Preferences
Present Position: Assistant Professor, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Event Administration
2017/7 - 2018/5 Program Co-Chair, Graduate Student Symposium at the 2018 Canadian AI Conference, Conference, 2018/5 - 2018/5
2016/5 - 2017/5 General Co-Chair, Sixteenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2017), Conference, 2017/5 - 2017/5
2014/6 - 2015/1 Program Co-Chair, 2015 SIGAI Career Network and Conference, Conference, 2015/1 2015/1
2012/12 - 2013/11 Chair, 2013 Ontario Celebration of Women in Computing (ONCWIC 2013), Conference, 2013/11 - 2013/11
Organizational Review Activities
2017/6 - 2017/8 Site Visit Committee Member, NSERC
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Committee Memberships
2013/7 Committee Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) 2013/5 Committee Member, Editorial Board, Artificial Intelligence
2010/5 Committee Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
2017/9 - 2018/7 Committee Member, Senior Program Committee for the 2018 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2018
2017/9 - 2018/2 Committee Member, Senior Program Committee for the 2018 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2018
2017/2 - 2017/8 Committee Member, Senior Program Committee for the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) (IJCAI 2017), IJCAI 2017
2016/9 - 2017/2 Committee Member, Senior Program Committee for Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 17), AAAI 2017
2016/2 - 2016/7 Committee Member, Senior Program Committee for the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2016), IJCAI 2016
2016/2 - 2016/7 Committee Member, Senior Program Committee for the 17th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, ACM EC 2016
2015/11 - 2016/5 Committee Member, Senior Program Committee for International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2016), AAMAS 2016
2010/5 - 2016/5 Committee Member, Board of Directors, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
2015/2 - 2015/7 Committee Member, Senior Program Committee for the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2015), IJCAI 2015
2014/11 - 2015/5 Committee Member, Senior Program Committee International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2015), AAMAS 2015
2013/5 - 2015/5 Chair, Board of Directors, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
2011/7 - 2014/7 Committee Member, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), AAAI
Elected Coucilor of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2014/2 - 2014/6 Committee Member, Senior Program Committee for the 15th ACM Conference on
Economics and Computation (EC 2014), ACM EC 2012
2013/2 - 2013/7 Committee Member, Senior Program Committee for the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2013), IJCAI 2013
2011/10 - 2012/5 Committee Member, Senior Program Committee International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2012), AAMAS 2012
2011/2 - 2011/7 Committee Member, Senior Program Committee for the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011), IJCAI 2011
Presentations
Dr. Kate Larson
143 Main Audience: Researcher
Invited?: Yes, Keynote?: No
2. (2013). A Game-Theoretic Model for Resource Sharing for Wildfires. Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery (BIRS),Workshop on Managing Fire on Populated Forest Landscapes, Banff, Canada Main Audience: Researcher
Invited?: Yes, Keynote?: No
3. (2013). Understanding Stability in Network Games. Economics Seminar Series, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada
Main Audience: Researcher Invited?: Yes, Keynote?: No
4. (2012). Graphs and Coalitions: Understanding Stability in Network Games. Joint Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis and Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce, Valencia, Spain
Main Audience: Researcher Invited?: Yes, Keynote?: No
5. (2012). Social Distance Games. Dagstuhl Workshop on Computation and Incentives in Social Choice, Wadern, Germany
Main Audience: Researcher Invited?: Yes, Keynote?: No
6. (2011). Social Distance Games. Waterloo Institute of Complexity and Innovation Seminar Series, Waterloo, Canada
Main Audience: Researcher Invited?: Yes, Keynote?: No