+=============+ + Paul Varkey + +=============+ Multi Agent Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, UIC a: 1902 Montecito Ave, APT 10, Mountain View CA 94043 p: 312.316.1849 w: http://www.cs.uic.edu/~pvarkey _______ [[[ Areas ]]] Artificial Intelligence, Decision Theory, Game Theory, Reasoning Under Uncertainty, Interactive Epistemology, Bounded Rationality ___________ [[[ Education ]]] Ph.D. (yet-to-defend; on academic leave since Aug 2011), Computer Science, GPA: 3.8/4.0 University of Illinois at Chicago Thesis: Epistemological and Computational Issues in Automated Negotiation under Uncertainty B.Tech., Computer Science, May 2004, cum laude, GPA: 8.72/10.00 Indian Institute of Information Technology Thesis: Achieving semantic interoperability between different ontology modeling languages _____________________ [[[ Industry experience ]]] Foodily, Inc. (Aug 2011 -) A startup offering semantic search and social networking built around recipes; hired as a Machine Learning & search engineer; worked on the core indexing, ranking and search algorithms; currently developing Bayesian network based machine learning models in order to achieve a level of intelligence across our entire range of products; built highly-scalable and efficient in-memory data structures to replace most of the core database-dependent APIs ________ [[[ Papers ]]] Paul Varkey and Piotr Gmytrasiewicz, 2011 Sampling and Updating Higher Order Beliefs in Decision-theoretic Bargaining with Finite Interactive Epistemologies, 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART'11), Jan 28 to 30, 2011. Paul Varkey and Piotr Gmytrasiewicz, 2011 Resource Bounded Decision-Theoretic Bargaining with Finite Interactive Epistemologies, 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART'11), Jan 28 to 30, 2011. Paul Varkey, 2010 Bargaining under Higher Order Uncertainty: Perfect Bayesian Equilibria with Sensitivity Analysis, Second Brazilian Workshop of The Game Theory Society (BWGT'10), Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 29 to August 4, 2010. Paul Varkey and Piotr Gmytrasiewicz, 2010 Sampling and Updating Higher Order Beliefs in Decision-theoretic Bargaining under Uncertainty, Interactive Decision Theory and Game Theory Workshop at AAAI'10, Atlanta, GA, July 11 to July 15, 2010. Paul Varkey, 2010 Bounded Rational Probabilistic Epistemic Dynamics in Bilateral Bargaining under Uncertainty, North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (NASSLLI'10), Bloomington, IN, June 20 to Jue 26, 2010. Paul Varkey, 2010 Bounded Rational Decision-Theoretic Bargaining using Finite Interactive Epistemologies Technical Report, UIC (unpublished), 2010. Paul Varkey, 2008 A Particle-Filter based Rubinsteinian Behavioral Bargaining Agent, Technical Report, UIC (unpublished), 2008. _______ [[[ Talks ]]] Paul Varkey, 2012 Bounded Rational Automated Bilateral Bargaining under Bayesian and Non-Bayesian Frameworks First Caribbean Game Theory Conference, Curacao, Dutch Antilles, Jan 23, 2012. Paul Varkey, 2011 Bounded Rational Decision-Theoretic Bargaining – Part 1: A Complexity-Theoretic Perspective ESI Bounded Rationality Mini-Workshop, Strategic Interaction Group, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany, Jan 25, 2011. Paul Varkey, 2011 Bounded Rational Decision-Theoretic Bargaining – Part 2: Approximate Higher-Order Epistemic Reasoning ESI Bounded Rationality Mini-Workshop, Strategic Interaction Group, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany, Jan 25, 2011. Paul Varkey, 2010 Perfect Bayesian Equilibria in Bargaining Games with Higher Order Uncertainty, 60th Midwest Theory Day (MWTD'10), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, April 14, 2010. Paul Varkey, 2010 Stochastic Games (Part I): Discounted (Noncompetitive) Markov Decision Processes, 4th Annual Graduate Student Conference in Probability (GSCP'10), Duke University, Durham NC, Apr 30-May 2, 2010. Paul Varkey, 2009 What I Believe About What You Believe About What I Believe, And So On Ad Infinitum (Or, Game Theory, Interactive Epistemology and Infinite Hierarchies of Probabilistic Beliefs), 3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference in Probability (GSCP'09), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC, May 1-3, 2009. ________________ [[[Other Highlights]]] Completed 24 courses in graduate school, double the required number, in various areas of Mathematics and Computer Science including Game Theory, Probability Theory, Articial Intelligence, Theoretical Computer Science and Software Engineering with a GPA of 3.8/4.0 Algorithmic proficiencies include State Space Search, Dynamic Programming, Belief State Estimation, Kalman Filtering, Particle Filtering, Linear Programming, Policy and Value Iteration for (Partially Observable) Markov Decision Processes and Formulating Numerical Non-Linear Optimization of Multiply Coupled Differential Equation Systems Led graduate seminars in Probabilistic Graphical Models (inference and parameter and structure learning in Bayesian Networks) and in Stochastic Games Won numerous competitive travel grants for almost all of my research/conference travel 8 years of development experience in C++ and Java 6 years of Systems/Network Administration experience (Linux, Solaris and Perl) 4 years of Web Application Development (Apache, mySQL, PHP and ASP) 4 years of Research Programming experience in Maple, C and C++ 2 years of experience in Semantic Web research projects (markup interoperability & inference over remote RDF databases) & technologies (OWL, JENA, Topic Maps) 3 years of leadership experience in Student Government & Representation 1+ year of Undergraduate teaching & curriculum development in CS, 1 teaching award Passed entry-level (technician) Amateur (ham) radio certification exam Tutoring (LSAT, GMAT, GRE; college-level Math, Physics, CS and Economics; graduate-level Machine Learning, Theories of utilities, decisions & games) miscellaneous: amateur soccer refereeing, playing chess and salsa dancing