Kevin Leyton-Brown (born May 12, 1975) is a Professor of

Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

at the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a Public university, public research university with campuses near University of British Columbia Vancouver, Vancouver and University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada ...

. He received his Ph.D. at

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

in 2003. He was the recipient of a 2014

NSERC The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC; , CRSNG) is the major federal agency responsible for funding natural sciences and engineering research in Canada. NSERC directly funds university professors and students as ...

E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, a 2013/14 Killam Teaching Prize, and a 2013 Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize from the Canadian Association of Computer Science. Leyton-Brown co-teaches a popular game theory course on Coursera.org, along with Matthew O. Jackson and

Yoav Shoham Yoav Shoham (; born 22 January 1956) is a computer scientist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. His research spans artificial intelligence, logic and game theory. He has also founded and sold several AI companies. Shoham received ...

. Leyton-Brown serves as an associate editor for the ''Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research'', the ''Artificial Intelligence'' journal, and ''ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation'', and was program chair for the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce in 2012. Leyton-Brown and coauthors have received the IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize, the ACM SIGKDD test-of-time award for his work on Auto-WEKA, and numerous medals in international SAT competitions (2003–12). He was elected an

AAAI Fellow Fellowship of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (abbreviated as AAAI Fellow or FAAAI) is an award granted to individuals that the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), judged to have made ...

in 2018. Leyton-Brown's research is at the intersection of

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

and

microeconomics Microeconomics is a branch of economics that studies the behavior of individuals and Theory of the firm, firms in making decisions regarding the allocation of scarcity, scarce resources and the interactions among these individuals and firms. M ...

, addressing computational problems in economic contexts and incentive issues in multiagent systems. He also studies the application of

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 ( ...

to the automated design and analysis of algorithms for solving hard computational problems. In 2023, Leyton-Brown was named a Fellow of the

Royal Society of Canada The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; , SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bilingual council of distinguishe ...

Selected publications

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References

External links

Leyton-Brown's homepage at the University of British Columbia
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Leyton-Brown, Kevin 1975 births Living people Canadian computer scientists Artificial intelligence researchers Stanford University alumni Academic staff of the University of British Columbia Academic journal editors Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada McMaster University alumni Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence