Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award

The Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award is given for dissertations in the field of autonomous agents and multiagent systems that show originality, depth, impact, as well as quality of writing, supported by high-quality publications. 

The 2024 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award committee (Nisarg Shah (Chair); Gauthier Picard; Long Tran-Thanh; and Bryan Wilder) has recommended the following recipients for the 2024 awards (winner and runner-up).

Winner

Jannik Peters
Thesis title: Facets of Proportionality: Selecting Committees, Budgets, and Clusters
Supervisor: Dr. Markus Brill
University: TU Berlin

Runner Up

Lily Xu
Thesis title: High-stakes decisions from low-quality data: AI decision-making for planetary health
Supervisor: Prof. Milind Tambe
University: Harvard University