[agents] 2015 IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award

[Bo An]

*2015 IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award*


This award was started for dissertations defended in 2006 and is named for
Professor Victor Lesser, a long standing member of the AAMAS community who
has graduated a large number of outstanding PhD students in the area. To be
eligible for the 2015 award, a dissertation had to have been written as
part of a PhD defended during the year 2015, and had to be nominated by the
supervisor with three supporting references. Selection is based on
originality, depth, impact and written quality, supported by quality
publications. Previous winners of this award were Yair Zick (2014), Manish
Jain (2013), Birgit Endrass (2012), Daniel Villatoro (2011), Bo An (2010),
Andrew Gilpin  (2009), Ariel Procaccia (2008), Radu Jurca (2007), and
Vincent Conitzer (2006).

The 2015 IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award recipient
is Dr. Amos Azaria, whose thesis titled "Agents for Automated Human
Persuasion" was supervised by Prof. Sarit Kraus and Prof. Yonatan Aumann.
The committee also wanted to recognize Dr. Piotr Skowron, whose thesis
titled "Resource Allocation in Selfish and Cooperative Distributed Systems"
was supervised by Prof. Piotr Faliszewski.

Dr. Azaria will give a presentation about his research during the
AAMAS'2016 conference (Thursday, May 12, 5:30pm).



Bo An (on behalf of the 2015 IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished
Dissertation Award Committee: Elisabeth André, Boi Faltings, Maria Gini,
Sandip Sen, Makoto Yokoo, Michael Winikoff)