Autonomous Agents Research Award

Autonomous Agents Research Award

The ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award is an annual award for excellence in research in the area of autonomous agents. The award is intended to recognise researchers in autonomous agents whose current work is an important influence on the field.

The selection committee for the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Professor Vincent Conitzer is the recipient of the 2021 award.

Citation: Professor Conitzer is the Distinguished University Professor of New Technologies and Professor of Computer Science, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Philosophy at Duke University, as well as Head of Technical AI Engagement at the Institute for Ethics in AI, and Professor of Computer Science and Philosophy, at the University of Oxford. His highly cited work in multiagent systems spans interdisciplinary areas in game theory, social choice, and economics. Specifically, he has made seminal contributions to the field of computational social choice, helped to define the field of automated mechanism design, and provided complexity results on Nash equilibrium as well as leader-follower games. Professor Conitzer has served the autonomous agents research community in a variety of capacities, including as AAMAS program chair, EC program chair, AIES program chair, and AAAI program chair. He was also a founding editor of the ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation.

The recipient of the award will be delivering a keynote address at the conference. More information about the award and a list of previous winners are available from the ACM/SIGAI website.