Haifeng Xu

Assistant Professor, AI2050 Early Career Fellow

Year

2023
Program

AI2050
Institution

University of Chicago
Field of Study

Computer Science
Location

USA

Haifeng Xu is an assistant professor in computer science at the University of Chicago, and directs the Strategic Intelligence for Machine Agents (SIGMA) lab which focuses on designing intelligent AI systems that can effectively learn and act in informationally complex multi-agent setups. His research interests include computational economics, machine learning, algorithm design, and multi-agent systems. Haifeng has been recognized by multiple awards, including Early Career Spotlight at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), a Google Faculty Research Award, ACM SIGecom Dissertation Award (honorable mention) and IFAAMAS Distinguished Dissertation Award (runner-up). Prior to UChicago, he was the Alan Batson Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, and even before that a postdoc at Harvard. Haifeng obtained his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, advised by Profs. Milind Tambe and Shaddin Dughmi.