Lachlan Dufton
PhD Candidate
Artificial Intelligence Research Group
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1
CANADA
ltdufton [at] uwaterloo [dot] ca
+1 519 888 4567 ext. 37891
Office: DC2580 (Davis Centre)
www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~ltdufton
Supervisor: Kate Larson
Research Interests
I'm interested in problems where a group of individuals must make some collective decision. The individuals can have widely varying preferences, which they may falsely report for their own self-interest. In particular, I've recently focussed on the area of Computational Social Choice. I'm examing how randomisation can improve mechanisms for social choice problems, and alleviate computational and game theoretic issues. I'm also interested in appropriate perfomance measures and desiderata for randomised mechanisms for social choice problems.
Keywords
Artificial Intelligence, Computational Social Choice, Game Theory, Multiagent Systems, Mechanism Design, Fair Division, Randomised Mechanisms, Resource Allocation, Machine Learning
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, May 2008 - Present
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Bachelor of Engineering (Software) with Honours Class I, Feb 2004 - Dec 2007
University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Honours and Awards
David R. Cheriton Graduate Scholarship, 2010, 2011
UW Graduate Scholarship, 2010
AAMAS'10 Student Scholarship, 2010
UW Graduate Entrance Scholarship, 2008
UQ University Medal, 2007
David Andrew Krnak Memorial Prize, 2007
Fourth Year Engineering Travel Fund, 2007
Microsoft Scholarship (Software Eng), 2007
Dean's Commendation for High Achievement, 2004-2007
CISRA Prize for Meritorious Performance in Second Year Software Eng, 2005
UQ Student Exchange Scholarship, 2005
Teaching Assistant (TA) / Instructional Apprentice (IA)
Fall 2012
TA: CS330 Management Information Systems
Spring 2012
IA: CS234 Data Types and Structures
Winter 2012
IA: CS116 Introduction to Computer Science 2
Fall 2011
TA: CS486 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Spring 2011
TA: CS330 Management Information Systems
Winter 2011
IA: CS116 Introduction to Computer Science 2
Winter, Spring, Fall 2010
IA: CS116 Introduction to Computer Science 2
Spring 2009
TA: CS330 Management Information Systems
Winter 2009
TA: CS486 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Fall 2008
IA: CS115 Introduction to Computer Science 1