Description:

Wednesday / CS Seminar
October 09th / 12:00 PM
Hybrid / Mudd 3514

Speaker
David Radke, Chicago Blackhawks

Talk Title
Presenting Multiagent Challenges in Team Sports Analytics

Abstract
This talk will present several challenges and opportunities within the area of team sports analytics and key research areas within multiagent systems (MAS). We specifically consider invasion games, where players invade the opposing team's territory and can interact anywhere on a playing surface (ice hockey or soccer). We discuss how MAS is well-equipped to study invasion games and will benefit both MAS and sports analytics fields. We highlight topics along the axes of coaching (i.e., short-term strategy) and management (i.e., long-term team planning) and present high level findings at the intersection of multiagent reinforcement learning and ice hockey.

Biography
Dr. David Radke is a Senior Research Scientist with the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He holds a PhD from the University of Waterloo where he was advised by Dr. Kate Larson and Dr. Tim Brecht. His research areas include artificial intelligence (AI) and ice hockey analytics, specifically focusing on the areas of multiagent systems and reinforcement learning. He has published several papers at several top AI conferences, including IJCAI, AAAI, and AAMAS. He has also published papers at sports analytics workshops and LINHAC, a hockey analytics conference, where he received a best paper award in 2022 for his work with NHL tracking data.

Research/Interest Areas:
Artificial Intelligence, Multiagent Systems, Reinforcement Learning

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