Michael Wooldridge

Professor Wooldridge is Head of Department and Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, and a Senior Research Fellow at Hertford College. He joined Oxford on 1 June 2012; before this he was for twelve years a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool. In October 2011, Professor Wooldridge was awarded a 5- year ERC Advanced Grant, entitled “Reasoning About Computational Economies” (RACE). Professor Wooldridge is an ACM Fellow, an AAAI Fellow, a EURAI Fellow, an AISB Fellow, a BCS Fellow, and a member of Academia Europaea. In 2006, he was the recipient of the ACM Autonomous Agents Research Award. In 2015, he was elected President of the International Joint
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) for a two year period.

His research interests are in the use of formal techniques of one kind or another for reasoning about multiagent systems. He is particularly interested in the computational aspects of rational action in systems composed of multiple self-interested computational systems. His current research is at the intersection of logic, computational complexity, and game theory.

Professor Wooldridge has published more than three hundred articles in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. Between 2003 and 2009 Professor Wooldridge was co-editor-in-chief of the Journal Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Professor Wooldridge is an associate editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) (2006-2009, 2009-2012), an associate editor of Artificial Intelligence journal (2009-2012) and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Logic, Journal of Logic and Computation, Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence, and Computational
Intelligence.