Milind Tambe is a Professor of Computer Science and Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). He leads the TEAMCORE Research Group at USC, with research is focused on agent-based and multi-agent systems. He is a fellow of AAAI (Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) and recipient of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Autonomous Agents Research Award. He is also the recipient of the Homeland Security Award from the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation, a special commendation given by the Los Angeles World Airports police from the city of Los Angeles, USC Viterbi School of Engineering use-inspired research award, Okawa foundation faculty research award, the RoboCup scientific challenge award, USC Steven B. Sample Teaching and Mentoring award and the ACM recognition of service award. Prof. Tambe and his research group's papers have been selected as best papers or finalists for best papers at a dozen premier Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research Conferences and workshops, and their algorithms have been deployed for real-world use by several agencies including the LAX police, the Federal Air Marshals service and the Transportation security administration. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.