University of Southern California
Research Group
Matthew Brown
NASA Space Technology Research Fellow

I am a second year PhD student in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California. I am a member of the Teamcore Research Group led by Milind Tambe. I was selected to the inaugural class of NASA Space Technology Research Fellows for my proposal Task Allocation Using Continuous Resource Distributed Markov Decision Processes. My main research interest is the study of decision theory paradigms such as Game Theory and *-MDP variants.

Current Projects:

Previous Projects:

Publications:
  • Matthew Brown, Bo An, Chris Kiekintveld, Fernando Ordóñez, and Milind Tambe. An Extended Study on Multi-Objective Security Games, Submitted to the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (JAAMAS). (Under Review)

  • Matthew Brown, Bo An, Chris Kiekintveld, Fernando Ordóñez, and Milind Tambe. Multi-Objective Optimization for Security Games, In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS), June 2012. [pdf]

  • Matthew Brown, Emma Bowring, Shira Epstein, Mufaddal Jhaveri, Rajiv Maheswaran, Parag Mallick, Shannon Mumenthaler, Michelle Povinelli, and Milind Tambe. Applying Multi-Agent Techniques to Cancer Modeling, In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Multiagent Sequential Decision Making in Uncertain Domains (at AAMAS-11), May 2011. [pdf]

  • Jason Tsai, Natalie Fridman, Emma Bowring, Matthew Brown, Shira Epstein, Gal Kaminka, Stacy Marsella, Andrew Ogden, Inbal Rika, Ankur Sheel, Matthew Taylor, Xuezhi Wang, Avishay Zilka, Milind Tambe. ESCAPES: Evacuation Simulation with Children, Authorities, Parents, Emotions, and Social Comparison. In Proceedings of the Innovative Applications Track of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS), May 2011. [pdf]

  • Simon Buckingham Shum, Maarten Sierhuis, Jack Park, and Matthew Brown. Software agents in support of human argument mapping. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA), September 2010. [pdf]

Contact Information:
University of Southern California
Powell Hall of Engineering 514
3737 Watt Way
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0781

E-mail: matthew [dot] a [dot] brown [at] usc [dot] edu

 Education:
Master's degree (2010) in Computer Science from University of Utah.
Bachelor's degree (2010) in Computer Science from University of Utah.