Sara Marie Mc Carthy

University of Southern California
Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) 300,
941 Bloom Walk, Los Angeles,
CA 90089, United States

sara.m.mccarthy@gmail.com

I am currently PhD candidate in my 4th year at the Department of Computer Science at USC. I work in the Teamcore Research Group and am advised by professor Milind Tambe.

University of Southern California
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science
2014 - present

McGill University
Bachelor's Degree, Honours Physics
2011 - 2014


Forest Protection	Cyber Security	Airport Security

Book Chapters

Sara Mc Carthy, Arunesh Sinha, Milind Tambe, Pratyusa Manadhata.Decision Theory for Network Security: Active Sensing for Detection and Prevention of Data Exfiltration. In Applied Risk Analysis for Guiding Homeland Security Policy and Decisions. John Wiley & Sons Inc. 2017

Sara Mc Carthy, Arunesh Sinha, and Milind Tambe. Game Theoretic Defense for Maritime Security. Book on Challenges in Maritime Security. (CCICADA Department of Homeland Security) 2016

Conference and Journal Publications

Sara Mc Carthy, Phebe Vayanos, Milind Tambe. Staying Ahead of the Game: Adaptive Robust Optimization for Dynamic Allocation of Threat Screening Resources. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2017

Sara Mc Carthy, Arunesh Sinha, Milind Tambe, Pratyusa Manadhata. Data Exfiltration Detection and Prevention: Virtually Distributed POMDPs for Practically Safer Networks. In Proceedings of the Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec) 2016

Sara Mc Carthy, Milind Tambe, Christopher Kiekintveld, Meredith L. Gore, Alex Killion. Preventing Illegal Logging: Simultaneous Optimization of Resource Teams and Tactics for Security. In Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2016

Sara M. McCarthy, Doina Precup. Theoretical results on the effect of 'shortcut' actions in MDPs. Connection Science. Vol. 26, Iss. 2, 2014

Workshop Papers

Sara Mc Carthy, Phebe Vayanos, Milind Tambe. Dynamic Decisions and Adaptive Allocations: Robust Planning for Physical and Cyber Threat Screening Games. In International Workshop on A.I. in Security 2017

Sara Mc Carthy, Milind Tambe, Christopher Kiekintveld, Meredith L. Gore, Alex Killion. Preventing Illegal Logging: Simultaneous Optimization of Resource Teams and Tactics for Security. In AAMAS Workshop on Security and Multi-agent Systems (SecMAS) 2016

Sara Mc Carthy, Milind Tambe, Christopher Kiekintveld, Meredith L. Gore, Alex Killion. Multi-Agent Patrolling on a Budget: Finding the Best Team for the Job. In AAMAS Workshop on Optimization in Multi-Agent Systems (OPTMAS) 2015

Sara M. McCarthy, Doina Precup. Theoretical Results on Variable-Length Actions in MDPs.In AAMAS Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA13)