Kate S. Larson is a Canadian computer scientist working as a professor, Pasupalak AI Fellow, and University Research Chair in the Cheriton School of Computer Science of the University of Waterloo.
[1][2] Her dissertation, Mechanism Design for Computationally Limited Agents, was supervised by Tuomas Sandholm.
[3] Larson returned to Canada as an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo in 2004.
[1] Larson's research concerns algorithmic mechanism design, cooperative game theory, and the formation of coalitions in multi-agent systems.
[4][5] In 2015 the Canadian Association of Computer Science named her as an outstanding young researcher.