Milind Tambe
Milind Tambe researches agents, teamwork and multiagent decision making. His research includes flexible teamwork in 1997 and later office-assistant agents. With Pragnesh Jay Modi, Wei-Min Shen and Makoto Yokoo he contributed to ADOPT distributed optimization in 2005. His team applied security-game methods through ARMOR at Los Angeles airport from 2007, when AAAI elected him a Fellow. Later collaborations include conservation and public-health projects from 2013. At Harvard, he leads Teamcore and computation-and-society research.
- Now at
- Harvard University
- Works
- 888
- Citations
- 23,367
- h-index
- 74
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1997
Flexible teamwork
Tambe published Towards Flexible Teamwork in 1997 as an early part of his multiagent work. His research includes models of team behavior and later office-assistant agents. These systems raised questions about cooperation, autonomy and privacy in shared environments.
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2005
Shared distributed optimization
Tambe contributed to ADOPT with Pragnesh Jay Modi, Wei-Min Shen and Makoto Yokoo. The 2005 paper explains asynchronous distributed optimization through conservative local cost estimates.
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2007
Security games and AI recognition
ARMOR was deployed at Los Angeles airport in 2007. It used game-theoretic algorithms for randomized security scheduling. AAAI elected him a Fellow that year.
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2013 and later projects
Conservation and public-health collaboration
Tambe’s PAWS conservation and public-health work began in 2013. These are collaborations with nonprofits and other researchers, using learning and decision methods to direct limited resources. At Harvard, he leads Teamcore and computation-and-society research.
Sources and credits
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