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We let you play a simple role-playing game against humans and AI agents. Can you guess which one is AI?
Meet the research team
Galit Ashkenazi-Golan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at LSE. Her research focus is in Game Theory, the mathematical modelling of strategic interactions. In particular, she is interested in dynamic games (such as repeated games, stochastic games, or Borel Games), and often in the effect that information has on the equilibrium of a game. Galit joined LSE in 2021 as Assistant Professor. Before this she was a research affiliate in the School of Mathematical Sciences of Tel-Aviv University. Her PhD was written under the supervision of Ehud Lehrer from Tel-Aviv University and she spent several years of her PhD as a visiting scholar at the École Polytechnique in Paris.
Francisco Aristi-Reina is a PhD student in the Department of Mathematics. His research topic is multi agent learning and his supervisors are Bernhard von Stengel and Katerina Papadaki.
Katerina Papadaki is Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at LSE, and the Programme Director for the MSc Operations Research and Analytics programme. She received her PhD from Princeton University from the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering. A major component of her research has been in developing algorithms to solve discrete deterministic and stochastic optimization problems that arise in dynamic resource allocation problems with applications involving physical resources (transportation networks, drone routing for disaster management), radio resource allocation (wireless communication networks), and financial optimisation problems.
Bernhard von Stengel is Head of Department and Professor of Mathematics at LSE, which he joined in 1998 after postdoctoral positions at Berkeley and ETH Zurich. He holda MSc degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from Aachen (Germany) and Austin/Texas (supervised by Edsger W. Dijkstra), a PhD in Mathematics from Passau, and a Habilitation in Computer Science from Munich. He teaches introductory courses in mathematics, computing, and on optimisation and game theory. His main research is on mathematical and computational questions of game theory, in particular the structure and computation of equilibria in games.
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