SRI Seminar Series: Kate Larson

Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Kate Larson, professor and University Research Chair in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo and a research scientist at Google DeepMind. Larson’s work sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, and decision-making, with a particular interest in how intelligent systems interact, coordinate, and cooperate.

Moderator: Nisarg Shah, Department of Computer Science

Talk title and abstract to be announced.

About the speaker

Kate Larson is a professor and holds a University Research Chair in the Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo and is a research scientist with Google DeepMind. She is interested in algorithmic questions arising in artificial intelligence and multiagent systems with a particular focus on algorithmic game theory and computational social choice, group decision making, preference modelling, and the insights that reinforcement learning can bring to these problems, along with ways of promoting and supporting cooperative AI.

She is an AAAI Fellow, and her work has been awarded several best paper awards, including at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), and ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (ACM CSCW). Because she likes seeing cooperation in action, she has been involved in organizing and supporting many conferences and workshops in different roles, including AAMAS (general chair) and IJCAI (program chair).

About the SRI Seminar Series

The SRI Seminar Series brings together the Schwartz Reisman community and beyond for a robust exchange of ideas that advance scholarship at the intersection of technology and society. Seminars are led by a leading or emerging scholar and feature extensive discussion.

About the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society

The Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society is a research institute at the University of Toronto that explores the ethical and societal implications of technology. Our mission is to deepen knowledge of technologies, societies, and humanity by integrating research across traditional boundaries to build human-centred solutions.

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