Christopher Kiekintveld
Unit: Computer Science
Title: Associate Professor
Research Expertise
Dr. Christopher Kiekintveld is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Program Director for Computer Science. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, including computational decision theory and game theory, multi-agent systems, and machine learning. This research enables new methods for autonomous decision making in complex, dynamic environments with substantial uncertainty. He is also interested in applications of artificial intelligence methods to real-world problems, including physical infrastructure protection and cybersecurity. He has worked on several deployed applications of game theory for security, including systems in use by the Federal Air Marshals Service and Transportation Security Administration. Several of his recent projects involve applications of game theory and adversarial machine learning to cybersecurity decision problems, particularly involving the strategic use of deception for cyber defense. He has authored more than 80 papers in peer-reviewed conferences and journals (e.g., AAMAS, IJCAI, AAAI, JAIR, JAAMAS, ECRA), and has received several best paper awards, the David Rist Prize, and an NSF CAREER award. His research has been funded by a variety of agencies including NSF, DHS, ONRG, ARL, and ARO.
Areas of Expertise/Keywords
Artificial intelligence, security, multi-agent systems, computational game theory, decision making,
uncertainty, robustness, mechanism design, economics, optimization, cooperation
