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Amulya
Yadav

Assistant Professor
E368 Westgate Building
University Park, PA 16802
814-865-6375
Additional Title(s)
PNC Career Development Assistant Professor
Director, RAISE Lab @ Penn State
Program Chair, Penn State Center for Socially Responsible AI
Affiliate Faculty, USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society
Affiliate Faculty, Penn State Center for Social Data Analytics
Education
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Southern California, 2018
B. Tech., Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Patna, 2012
Biography

Amulya Yadav is an Assistant Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University. He also has an affiliate faculty appointment with the USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems, Computational Game-Theory and Applied Machine Learning. His work in the field of Artificial Intelligence for Social Good focuses on developing theoretically grounded approaches to real-world problems that can have an impact in the field. His algorithms have been deployed in the real-world, particularly in the field of public health and wildlife protection. Amulya is a recipient of the AAMAS 2016 Best Student Paper Award, the AAAI 2017 Best Video and Best Student Video Award, the IDEAS 2016 Most Visionary Paper Award, and the AAMAS 2017 Best Paper Award nomination. His work has also been highlighted by Mashable.com as one of 26 incredible innovations that improved the world in 2015.

Amulya holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, and a B. Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Patna.

Research Keywords
Responsible Artificial Intelligence
Social Network Analysis
Machine Learning
Computational Game Theory
Multi-agent Systems