PhD - Artificial intelligence (AI)
Was
your
undergraduate
in
CS?
If
not,
what
did
you
study?
Yes.
Why
did
you
choose
graduate
studies
and
why
did
you
choose
graduate
studies
in
CS?
I
did
a
lot
of
summer
research
work
during
my
undergraduate
studies
and
had
a
great
time
doing
it.
Graduate
studies
in
CS
seemed
like
a
natural
next
step.
What
is
your
research
area
and
why
did
you
choose
it?
I
work
in
multi-agent
systems,
which
means
that
I
study
how
systems
of
many
AI
agents
work
together.
My
focus
is
on
the
study
of
voting
systems,
which
I
chose
after
taking
a
couple
of
seminar
courses
in
multi-agent
systems
and
human
computation.
I
think
this
area
really
appealed
to
me
because
it's
about
trying
to
exactly
describe
complex
strategic
thinking
when
other
people
are
trying
to
thwart
or
help
you.
I
always
liked
trying
to
figure
out
the
best
way
to
play
games,
or
the
best
way
to
achieve
certain
goals,
and
researching
this
topic
lets
me
do
that
at
work!
Who
is
your
supervisor
and
why
did
you
choose
to
work
with
him/her?
My
supervisor
is
Robin
Cohen.
I
chose
to
work
with
Robin
during
my
PhD
studies
because
we'd
worked
so
well
together
during
my
masters
degree,
and
because
of
her
dedication
to
her
students
and
her
work.
Why
did
you
choose
Waterloo
for
graduate
studies?
If
you
did
your
undergraduate
at
Waterloo,
why
did
you
stay?
I
chose
Waterloo
for
graduate
studies
both
because
of
its
reputation,
and
because
it
was
a
good
fit
for
my
wife
and
I
to
study
our
passions.
What
sort
of
research/projects
are
you
working
on?
Right
now
I
have
three
projects
on
the
go.
My
primary
research
is
on
developing
systems
that
can
decide
elections
with
only
partial
information
from
the
voters.
On
the
side,
I'm
working
with
Alan
Tsang
and
Hadi
Hosseini
on
electoral
systems
that
can
incorporate
information
about
the
social
relationships
between
the
voters;
and
with
Cecylia
Bocovich
on
a
market-based
approach
to
making
it
harder
to
censor
content
online.
What
classes
are
you
taking?
What
has
been
your
favourite
class
so
far?
I'm
no
longer
taking
classes,
but
I
think
my
favourite
class
was
CS886,
the
seminar
AI
course,
which
I
took
four
times
over
my
studies
(with
different
instructors).
Each
offering
was
on
a
different
area
of
AI,
but
you
always
get
to
read
really
interesting,
modern,
papers
in
the
area,
and
to
do
a
deep
research
project,
which
can
be
a
great
way
to
explore
something
a
little
outside
of
your
focus.