Amy Rachel Greenwald is an American computer scientist focusing on

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...

algorithmic game theory Algorithmic game theory (AGT) is an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of game theory and computer science, focused on understanding and designing algorithms for environments where multiple strategic agents interact. This research area com ...

, including the study of

intelligent agent In artificial intelligence, an intelligent agent is an entity that Machine perception, perceives its environment, takes actions autonomously to achieve goals, and may improve its performance through machine learning or by acquiring knowledge r ...

multi-agent system A multi-agent system (MAS or "self-organized system") is a computerized system composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents.H. Pan; M. Zahmatkesh; F. Rekabi-Bana; F. Arvin; J. HuT-STAR: Time-Optimal Swarm Trajectory Planning for Quadroto ...

s, and

reinforcement learning Reinforcement learning (RL) is an interdisciplinary area of machine learning and optimal control concerned with how an intelligent agent should take actions in a dynamic environment in order to maximize a reward signal. Reinforcement learnin ...

for

Nash equilibria In game theory, the Nash equilibrium is the most commonly used solution concept for non-cooperative games. A Nash equilibrium is a situation where no player could gain by changing their own strategy (holding all other players' strategies fixed) ...

, artificial intelligence in

negotiation Negotiation is a dialogue between two or more parties to resolve points of difference, gain an advantage for an individual or Collective bargaining, collective, or craft outcomes to satisfy various interests. The parties aspire to agree on m ...

, and computer play of

poker Poker is a family of Card game#Comparing games, comparing card games in which Card player, players betting (poker), wager over which poker hand, hand is best according to that specific game's rules. It is played worldwide, with varying rules i ...

. She is a professor of computer science at

Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...

Education and career

Greenwald was a double major in computer science and economics at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

, graduating summa cum laude in 1991. She went to the University of Oxford as a Thouron Award, Thouron Scholar, and received a master's degree in computation there in 1992. Returning to the US, she received a second master's degree in computer science in 1995 at Cornell University before completing her Ph.D. in computer science at New York University in 1999. Her doctoral dissertation, ''Learning to Play Network Games'', was jointly supervised by Bhubaneswar Mishra, Bud Mishra and Rohit Jivanlal Parikh, Rohit Parikh. After a year of postdoctoral research at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Greenwald became an assistant professor at

in 2000. She was promoted to associate professor in 2008 and full professor in 2018.

Book

Greenwald is a coauthor of the book ''Autonomous Bidding Agents: Strategies and Lessons from the Trading Agent Competition'' (with Michael P. Wellman and Peter Stone, MIT Press, 2007).

Recognition

Greenwald received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2002. In the same year, she received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, "for advancing a theory about how automated software agents can make decisions in uncertain environments such as online auctions". She received the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2006. Several students coached by Greenwald have medaled in the Supply Chain Management League of the International Automated Negotiation Agents Competition, in 2019, 2021, and 2024.

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