We would like to announce and congratulate the finalists for the 2022 Applied Probability Society student paper competition.
In alphabetical order:
Anand Kalvit (Columbia U.) for the paper: "A Closer Look at the Worst-case Behavior of Multi-armed Bandit Algorithms"
Wenlong Mou (Berkeley) for the paper "Optimal and instance-dependent guarantees for Markovian linear stochastic approximations"
Tianyi Peng and Andrew Zheng (MIT) for the paper: "Markovian Interference in Experiments"
Wentao Weng (MIT) for the paper: "Efficient decentralized multi-agent learning in asymmetric queueing systems"
The finalists will present their work in a dedicated session (#ME54: Monday, October 17, 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM)
Itai Gurvich, on behalf of the competition's committee
(see here for the competition rules and the list of committee members)
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Itai Gurvich
Professor
Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Evanston, IL
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