James P. Bailey


Email: bailej6@rpi.edu

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I am an assistant professor at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute). Previously, I was a visiting assistant professor at the Department of Industrial and Systems Enginering at Texas A&M University and a postdoctoral researcher at the Singapore University of Technology and Design under the supervision of Dr. Georgios Piliouras. I graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). I completed my PhD in Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization (ACO) at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE) while working with Dr. Craig Tovey.

My primary research interest is in the development of interdisciplinary approaches to understand problems related to optimization. To this end, I am creating connections between online optimization/machine learning and physics to advance the understanding of multi-agent learning systems such as generative adversarial networks. I am also working in the intersection of operations research, behavioral economics, and computer science to better understand social choice (group decision making) in areas such as voting, matching, and auctions. More generally, my research interests are:
  • Online Optimization
  • Algorithmic Game Theory
  • Combinatorial Optimization
  • Game Theory

Selected Publications

On the Dimension of the Set of Yolk Centers
James P. Bailey
OR Letters. 2023.

O(1/T) Time-Average Convergence in a Generalization of Multiagent Zero-Sum Games
James P. Bailey
arXiv preprint. 2021.

Path-Length Analysis for Grid-Based Path Planning
James P. Bailey, Alex Nash, Craig Tovey, and Sven Koenig.
Journal of Artificial Intelligence. 2021.

Finite Regret and Cycles with Fixed Step-Size via Alternating Gradient Descent-Ascent
James P. Bailey, *Gauthier Gidel and Georgios Piliouras.
In the Proceedings of the 33rd Conference on Learning Theory (COLT). 2020.

Multiagent Learning in Network Zero-Sum Games is a Hamiltonian System.
James P. Bailey, Georgios Piliouras.
Nominated for Best Paper In the Proceedings of the International Conference on
Auntonmous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). 2019.

Multiplicative Weights Update in Zero-Sum Games.
James P. Bailey, Georgios Piliouras.
In the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC). 2018.