Paul Weng

News:

I will move to UM-SJTU JI in 2018, will update this website soon.
Openings for master, PhDs, postdocs, research associates or interns: If you're interested in my research, please send me your CV.
Prospective master students: here are for some previous projects I advised.
May 2018: I will serve as a PC member for ACML 2018
Apr. 2018: I will serve as a reviewer for DA2PL 2018
Apr. 2018: I will serve as a reviewer for NIPS 2018
Mar. 2018: I will serve as a PC member for PRICAI 2018, special track on RL
Jan. 2018: I will serve as a chair of the demonstration track for IJCAI-ECAI 2018
Dec. 2017: I will serve as a Senior PC member for IJCAI 2018
Dec. 2017: I will serve as a PC member for UAI 2018
Dec. 2017: I will serve as a PC member for ICML 2018
Nov. 2017: our work is presented at PGMO days
Sep. 2017: I will serve as a reviewer for ICLR 2018
Sep. 2017: I will serve as a reviewer for AISTATS 2018
Sep. 2017: I will serve as a PC member for MPREF 2018
Sep. 2017: one paper accepted at COCOA'17
Aug. 2017: one paper accepted at AETA'17
Co-organizing the second Asian Workshop on Reinforcement Learning
Jun. 2017: I will serve as a PC member for AAAI 2018
May 2017: one paper accepted at ICML 2017
Apr. 2017: Balázs Szörényi visited us at JIE and JRI.
Apr. 2017: I will serve as a PC member for MIWAI 2017
Mar. 2017: I will serve as a PC member for ACML 2017
Mar. 2017: I will serve as a reviewer for NIPS 2017
Mar. 2017: new paper accepted at IJAIT
Feb. 2017: I will serve as a PC member for UAI 2017
Feb. 2017: I will serve as a PC member for JFPDA 2017
Dec. 2016: Best paper award at MIWAI
Dec. 2016: I will serve as a PC member for MODEM at AAMAS 2017
Nov. 2016: one paper accepted at AAAI 2017
Nov. 2016: I will serve as a Senior PC member for IJCAI 2017
Nov. 2016: our work is presented at PGMO days
Oct. 2016: one paper accepted at DA2PL
Oct. 2016: I will serve as a PC member for AISTATS 2017
Sept. 2016: two papers accepted at MIWAI
July 2016: our project was funded by PGMO
Co-organizing the first Asian Workshop on Reinforcement Learning
June 2016: Xiaoliang Fan gave a talk at JRI.
May 2016: Hugo Gilbert visited us at JIE and JRI.
May 2016: one paper accepted at UAI
April 2016: Robert Busa-Fekete visited us at JIE and JRI.
April 2016: new paper accepted at COMSOC
February 2016: Hugo Gilbert, a PhD student in our group, got a second prize as young researcher at ROADEF for his work with Olivier Spanjaard.

Current Professional Situation

Assistant professor at University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute

Education

Ph.D in computer science at Sorbonne Universités, UPMC (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
Defended on December, 12th 2006 (with distinction "très honorable")
Title: "Qualitative models and algebraic approaches for decision under uncertainty: axiomatic foundations and application to sequential decision making"

Professional Experience

From 2018 Assistant professor at University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiaotong University Joint Institute
2016-2017 Associate professor at School of Electronics and Information Technology, SYSU
2015-2017 Assistant professor at SYSU-CMU Joint Institute of Engineering
2015-2017 Assistant professor at SYSU-CMU Shunde International Joint Research Institute
2015-2016: Associate professor at School of Mobile Information Engineering, SYSU
2015: Visiting assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University
2007-2014: Associate professor in computer science at LIP6, UPMC
2006-2007: Temporary teaching/research position (ATER) in computer science at LIP6, UPMC
2003-2005: Teaching assistant in computer science at UPMC
2003-2006: Beneficiary of a research allowance at LIP6, UPMC
April 2000 to June 2002: Junior quantitative analyst at SG Securities (Société Générale) in London
July 1998 to August 1999: Software developer (one-year internship) at WYNIWYG, IT consulting company

Research/Industrial Projects

2017-2020: DFG project (Online Preference Learning with Bandit Algorithms) coordinated by Eyke Hüllermeier (Paderborn University) and Robert Busa-Fekete (Paderborn University)
2016-2017: PGMO project (Exact and approximate algorithms for fair assignment/matching problems) coordinated by Viet Hung Nguyen (UPMC)
2015-2016: CIRC project (Robust energy-efficient data center control) coordinated by Bruno Sinopoli (CMU) and Paul Weng
2014-2015: Sorbonne Universités project ELICIT (preference elicitation) coordinated by Enrico Diecidue (INSEAD) and Paolo Viappiani (CNRS)
2011-2012: LIP6 project CLOE (Critères Linéarisés pour l'Optimisation Equitable) coordinated by Pierre Fouilhoux (UPMC)
2010-2014: ANR project LARDONS (Learning And Reasoning for Deciding Optimally using Numerical and Symbolic information) coordinated by Bruno Zanuttini (University of Caen)
2009-2013: ANR project GUEPARD (GUaranteed Efficiency for PAReto optimal solutions Determination in multiobjective combinatorial optimization problems) coordinated by Patrice Perny (UPMC)
2008-2009: LIP6 project DMDC (Décision Multi-agent sur des Domaines Combinatoires) coordinated by Olivier Spanjaard (UPMC)
2008: Industrial project with Looneo
2006-2009: ANR project PHAC (Preference Handling and Aggregation in Combinatorial domains) coordinated by Jérôme Lang (CNRS)

Research/Academic Activities

Editor of AI Resources
Referee for Research Foundation - Flanders (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen, FWO) since 2016
2018:
- Chair of the demonstration track at IJCAI-ECAI
- Senior PC member of IJCAI
- PC member of AAAI, ICML, UAI, MPREF, PRICAI 2018 special track on RL, DA2PL, ACML
- Reviewer for NIPS, ICLR, AISTATS
2017:
- Senior PC member of IJCAI
- Co-chair of AWRL (Asian Workshop on Reinforcement Learning)
- PC member of ACML, AISTATS, UAI
- PC member of MODEM at AAMAS, JFPDA, MIWAI
- Reviewer for NIPS (Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)
- Reviewer for Neurocomputing, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
2016:
- Senior PC member of IJCAI
- Co-chair of AWRL (Asian Workshop on Reinforcement Learning)
- PC member of UAI, ECAI, Workshop DA2PL, JFPDA, M-PREF, MIWAI
- Reviewer for NIPS (Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)
- Reviewer for Expert Systems With Applications
- Reviewer for Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
2015:
- Co-chair of Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling (M-PREF)
- PC member of IJCAI, UAI, SUM, MIWAI, ADT-LPNMR Doctoral Consortium
- Reviewer of MCO
2014:
- Co-chair of M-PREF
- Program co-chair of Multidisciplinary International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence
- PC member of UAI, ECAI, JFPDA
- Reviewer of IPMUi, TAAI
- Reviewer of Journal of Machine Learning Research
2013:
- PC member of IJCAI, ECML workshop RL with generalized feedback: beyond numeric rewards, M-PREF, MIWAI, JFPDA
- Reviewer of Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
2012:
- PC member of MIWAI, JFPDA
- Reviewer of IWAISE
2011:
- PC member of IJCAI, UAI, MIWAI, JFPDA
2010:
- PC member of MIWAI
- Reviewer of IPMU
2009:
- PC member of JFPDA, MIWAI
- Reviewer of ADT (Algorithmic Decision Theory)
- Reviewer of Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle
2008:
- PC member of MIWAI
- Reviewer of RFIA
- Reviewer of Journal of Financial Decision Making
2007:
- PC member of MIWAI
- Reviewer of ICML
- Reviewer of Fuzzy Sets and Systems