Short bio: Milind Tambe is Helen N. and Emmett H. Jones Professor in Engineering at the University of Southern California(USC). He is a fellow of AAAI (Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence), recipient of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Autonomous Agents Research Award, as well as recipient of the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation Homeland security award. In addition, he is also the receipient of the "influential paper award" from the International Foundation for Agents and Multiagent Systems, the INFORMS Wagner prize for excellence in Operations Research practice, the Rist Prize of the Military Operations Research Society, US Coast Guard First District's Operational Excellence Award, Certificate of Appreciation from the US Federal Air Marshals Service, special commendation given by the Los Angeles World Airports police from the city of Los Angeles, IBM Faculty Award, Okawa foundation faculty research award, the RoboCup scientific challenge award, USC Viterbi School of Engineering use-inspired research award, USC Steven B. Sample Teaching and Mentoring award and the ACM recognition of service award. Prof. Tambe and his research group's papers have been selected as best papers at a number of premier Artificial Intelligence Conferences and workshops; these have included multiple best paper awards at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems and International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. Additionally, the "security games" algorithms pioneered by his Teamcore research group have been deployed for real-world use by several agencies including the US Coast Guard, the US Federal Air Marshals service, LAX Police and the LA Sheriff's Department; this research has also recently led to his co-founding ARMORWAY, a security resource optimization company, where he serves on the board of directors. Prof. Tambe received his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

Current research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, Computational and behavioral game theory, Agent-based simulations, Planning under uncertainty, Crowd simulations, as well as Social network interactions and contagion. This research, driven by real-world practical challenges of security of our critical national infrastructure, sustainability of our natural resources and energy, and public safety, requires interdisciplinary partnerships, such as with the Game theory and human behavior group, which I founded at USC.

Recent : I have co-founded ARMORWAY, a company based on our research on game theory, focused on software and services for risk mitigation and security resource optimization. Below, some images of activities from 2011 (from left to right): IFAAMAS Influential paper award lecture, Daniel H Wagner Prize of the INFORMS society, Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation Award for Homeland Security, a video highlighting our work on security using game theory, and my recent book.