Rajiv Maheswaran is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California's Computer Science Department and a Research Scientist at the Information Sciences Institute at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. He co-directs the Computational Behavior Group. He received a B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics, Engineering and Physics from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research spans various aspects of multi-agent systems and distributed artificial intelligence, focusing on decision-theoretic and game-theoretic frameworks and solutions.
He has published extensively in artificial intelligence, decision and control theory and been an active reviewer for major conferences and journals in these fields. He has served as a Senior Program Committee Member for AAMAS 2008, 2011 and 2012 and Program Committee Member for the AAAI, AAMAS and IJCAI conferences. He was a co-organizer of the 2007 and 2008 AAMAS workshops on "Multi-agent Sequential Decision-Making in Uncertain Domains" (MSDM), the 2009 AAMAS workshop on "Agent Design: Advancing from Practice to Theory" (ADAPT) and the 2011 AAAI Spring Symposium, "Help Me Help You: Bridging the Gaps in Human-Agent Collaboration". He won a Best Demonstration Award at AAMAS 2010 for "Decision Support for Real-Time Multi-Agent Coordination" and a Best Demonstration Award at AAMAS 2011 for "The Social Ultimatum Game and Adaptive Agents". He received Meritorious Service Awards from USC-ISI in 2006, 2007 and 2009.
He has published extensively in artificial intelligence, decision and control theory and been an active reviewer for major conferences and journals in these fields. He has served as a Senior Program Committee Member for AAMAS 2008, 2011 and 2012 and Program Committee Member for the AAAI, AAMAS and IJCAI conferences. He was a co-organizer of the 2007 and 2008 AAMAS workshops on "Multi-agent Sequential Decision-Making in Uncertain Domains" (MSDM), the 2009 AAMAS workshop on "Agent Design: Advancing from Practice to Theory" (ADAPT) and the 2011 AAAI Spring Symposium, "Help Me Help You: Bridging the Gaps in Human-Agent Collaboration". He won a Best Demonstration Award at AAMAS 2010 for "Decision Support for Real-Time Multi-Agent Coordination" and a Best Demonstration Award at AAMAS 2011 for "The Social Ultimatum Game and Adaptive Agents". He received Meritorious Service Awards from USC-ISI in 2006, 2007 and 2009.