SODALab @ UofA (May 2022)

We are the Systems Optimization & Decision Analytics Lab (SODALab @UofA) based at the Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta (UofA) and the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), Edmonton, Canada. We are committed to optimizing complex decision-making in dynamic and multi-agent systems, striving for theoretically-elegant and practically-relevant research at the interface of systems science, artificial intelligence, and economics & computation.

In the SODALab, we view much of the modern world as systems of interacting and possibly self-interested agents, sharing and competing for limited resources under different forms of dynamics and uncertainty. This is particular true for high-impact, safety-critical systems in energy, transportation, and finance, where multi-agent or multi-stakeholder interactions are ubiquitous, robust performance against uncertainty is crucial, and unexplainable results are, in most cases, unacceptable if not utterly intolerable. This motivates the long-term goal of our research in the SODALab — to create a common set of mathematical tools that can help develop algorithms and market mechanisms, with formal guarantees on performance, robustness, and explainability, for optimization and decision-making under uncertainty.


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SODALab@UofA Dr. Xiaoqi Tan
The SODALab
Central Academic Building (CAB) 385,
University of Alberta,
116 St and 85 Ave, Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada T6G 2E8

Email: $ \textsf{contact}@\textsf{sodalab.ca} $
Web: https://sodalab.ca
Dr. Xiaoqi Tan
Athabasca Hall (ATH) 303,
Dept. of Computing Science, University of Alberta,
116 St and 85 Ave, Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada T6G 2E8

Email: $ \textsf{xiaoqi.tan}@\textsf{ualberta.ca} $
Web: https://xiaoqitan.org