Professional Activities

Reviewer on an NIH panel, 2024.

PC member for IJCAI 2024.

SPC member for AAMAS 2024, Modeling and Simulation of Societies.

SPC member for AAAI 2024, AI For Social Impact.

Workshops co-chair for AAMAS 2024 (with Davide Grossi and Julian Padget).

Reviewer on an NSF panel, 2024.

PC member for the Annual Simulation Symposium (ANNSIM), 2024.

PC member for IJCAI 2023.

PC member for AAAI 2023, AI For Social Impact.

Area chair for AAMAS 2023.

Reviewer on an NSF panel, 2023.

Ad hoc reviewer for NSF and NIH, 2023.

SPC member for AAAI 2022.

PC member for IJCAI 2022.

PC member for AAMAS 2022.

Reviewer on an NSF panel, 2022.

Ad hoc reviewer for NIH, 2022.

PC member for the Annual Simulation Symposium (ANNSIM), 2022.

I co-edited a special issue of Frontiers in Big Data: Big Data Networks, titled Scalable Network Generation and Analysis with Philippe Giabbanelli, Renaud Lambiotte, and Giuseppe Mangioni (2021/22).

I am a member of the steering committee for the Multi-Agent-Based Simulation series of workshops.

Area chair for AAMAS 2021.

PC member for IJCAI 2021.

PC member for the Annual Simulation Symposium (ANNSIM), 2021.

PC member for AAAI 2021.

Reviewer on an NSF panel, 2021.

SPC member for the Modeling and Simulation of Societies track at AAMAS 2020.

Tutorials co-chair for AAMAS 2020 (with Haris Aziz).

PC member for SpringSim 2020.

PC member for IJCAI-PRICAI 2020.

Reviewer on an NSF panel, 2020.

Reviewer on an NIH panel, 2020.

Area chair for AAMAS 2019.

Area chair for AAMAS 2018.

In April 2012, I helped organize the VBI Booth at the USA Science and Engineering Fair in Washington DC.

I have volunteered for Kids' Tech University and VBI High School Days.

In Summer 2010, I was a mentor in the REU Program on Modeling and Simulation in Systems Biology at VBI.

For a few years, I ran the NDSSL Seminar Series and the NDSSL Journal Club reading group at VBI.

I used to participate in the Language Evolution and Distributed Information Systems (LEADS) seminar at UIUC.

For a few years, I ran the Artificial Neural Networks and Computational Brain Theory (ANNCBT) seminar at UIUC.

I co-organized the track on Smart and Resilient Cities at the All Hands Meeting of the South Big Data Hub with Madhav Marathe (July 2021).

I co-chaired the Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS) workshop at AAMAS 2020 with Tony Savarimuthu. The proceedings are online.

I co-organized The 2018 Joint PI Meeting of the NSF BIGDATA and Big Data Hubs & Spokes programs with Vladimir Braverman.

I co-organized A Second Tutorial on Generating Synthetic Populations for Social Modeling at AAMAS 2017 with Madhav Marathe.

I co-organized The 2017 Joint PI Meeting of the NSF BIGDATA and Big Data Hubs & Spokes programs with Lisa Singh, Amol Deshpande, and Wenchao Zhou.

I co-organized A Tutorial on Generating Synthetic Populations for Social Modeling at AAMAS 2016 and IJCAI 2016 with Madhav Marathe.

I co-organized The Workshop on Computational Modeling of Attitudes at IJCAI 2016 with Kiran Lakkaraju and Mark Orr

I co-organized The AAAI Spring Symposium 2014 on Applied Computational Game Theory with Manish Jain, Albert Xin Jiang, and Bo An.

I co-organized The AAAI Fall Symposium 2013 on Social Networks and Social Contagion with Madhav Marathe, Kiran Lakkaraju, Milind Tambe, and Cynthia Lakon.

I co-organized the Networks over Time satellite meeting at NetSci 2013 with Balaraman Ravindran, Niloy Ganguly, and Subramanian Shivashankar.

I co-organized the Workshop on Multiagent Interaction Networks at AAMAS 2013 with Madhav Marathe, Stephen Eubank, Milind Tambe, Gita Sukthankar, George Vouros, and Paul Scerri.

I co-organized The AAAI Fall Symposium 2012 on Social Networks and Social Contagion with Madhav Marathe, Kiran Lakkaraju, Nosh Contractor, Milind Tambe, and Winter Mason.

I co-organized the Second Workshop on Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems (ABiALS 2004) at the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior conference (SAB 2004) with Martin Butz and Olivier Sigaud.
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems, July 2004. (pdf)
Martin V. Butz, Olivier Sigaud, Samarth Swarup (Eds.)