Members

Milind Tambe is the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Research in Computation and Society at Harvard University; concurrently, he is also Principal Scientist and Director for "AI for Social Good" at Google Research. He is recipient of the IJCAI (International Joint Conference on AI) John McCarthy Award, AAAI (Association for Advancement of AI) Feigenbaum Prize, AAAI Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award, AAMAS ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Autonomous Agents Research Award, INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Wagner prize for excellence in Operations Research practice and MORS (Military Operations Research Society) Rist Prize. He is a fellow of AAAI and ACM. For his work on AI and public safety, he has received the Columbus Fellowship Foundation Homeland Security award and commendations and certificates of appreciation from the US Coast Guard, the Federal Air Marshals Service, and airport police in the city of Los Angeles.

Prof. Tambe's other prior awards include the Okawa Foundation award, RoboCup Scientific Challenge award, and the IBM faculty award. Additionally, Prof. Tambe and coauthors have received 17 best paper awards at conferences such as AAAI, AAMAS, IJCAI, and others; this includes his 1997 paper "Towards flexible teamwork" in the Journal of AI Research that won the AAMAS influential paper award (an award given out 10 years after the publication of a paper).

Prior to Harvard, Prof. Tambe was the Helen N and Emmett H Jones Professor in Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), where he co-founded the Center for AI in Society (CAIS) [2016], one of the first centers in the country focused on AI for social impact. At USC, he was awarded the USC associates award for creativity in research, "the highest honors the university faculty can bestow on its members for distinguished intellectual and artistic achievements", the inaugural USC Viterbi School of Engineering Use-inspired research award, and the Steven B. Sample teaching and mentoring award "only faculty recognition award that is initiated by USC parents and family members".

Prof. Tambe completed his PhD from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to that, he completed his undergraduate education at BITS, Pilani, India, where he was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award.

Professor Tchakounté Franklin is an Associate Professor and researcher in computer science with more than 10 years of experience in cybersecurity and data science with a strong background in distributed systems. He received his MSc in Computer engineering from the University of Ngaoundéré (Cameroon, 2010) and his PhD Engineering Degree in Mobile Security from the University of Bremen (Germany, 2015). He has certifications in networks (CCNA, LPI, Suse), Cybersecurity (IBM), and Digital transformation (Coursera). He authored books, book chapters, and several research papers in the area of cyber security.

Prof Franklin is the founder of the Cybersecurity with Computational and Artificial Intelligence (CyComAI) company. He has been involved in international projects as a leader, assistant scientist, and technologist. He is a fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Staff Exchange in Sub-Saharan Africa, Research Mobility grants in the Ministry of Higher Education in Cameroon, and the WebWeWant F.A.S.T project. Devoted to volunteering in reviewing and conference involvement, he is currently a (senior) member of the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI), ISOC SIG Cybersecurity, and ISO SIG Cybersecurity Training and Education. He is presently the Cameroonian representative of Responsibility in AI in Africa (RAIN-Africa) and his interests include cyber security and artificial intelligence. For now, he proposes strategies for digital governance and transformations and is active in designing responsible AI security tools relying on the collective intelligence from social technologies around people.