Kate Larson

Kate Larson is a Professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. She is affiliated with the AI group and currently holds a University Research Chair and the Pasupalak AI Fellowship. She completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Her undergraduate degree was in mathematics from Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Professor Larson's research interests fall in the area of artificial intelligence with an emphasis on self-interested multiagent systems and how agents interact. The overarching theme of her research is strategic reasoning in computational settings. She is interested in understanding how ideas from game theory, mechanism design and microeconomics can be used to model and design systems for intelligent agents, as well as in studying the effect that computational limitations have on strategic behaviour, with the aim of reconciling some of the conflicts that arise between computational and game-theoretic constraints.