Dr. Michael Wooldridge

Dr. Michael Wooldridge is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, and Director of Foundational AI Research at the Alan Turing Institute, London (the UK’s national center for AI & data science). Before joining Oxford in 2012, he was a Professor at the University of Liverpool, for 12 years, where he was first Head of Department of Computer Science, and then Head of School (Dean) of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. Dr. Wooldridge gained his PhD from the University of Manchester in 1992.

Dr. Wooldridge has received international awards for both research and teaching. In 2020 he received the Lovelace Medal from the British Computer Society (the UK’s top award for a computer scientist), and received the ACM Autonomous Agents Research Award in 2006 (the award is made annually by ACM to an individual whose research in the area of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems over the previous five years is judged to have been particularly influential). He received the Outstanding Educator Award from the Association for Advancement of AI (AAAI) in 2021. He is an ACM Fellow (2015), a AAAI Fellow (2008), a EurAI Fellow (2007), and a member of Academia Europaea (2015). He is Editor-in-Chief elect of the journal “Artificial Intelligence”.

Wooldridge was President of the European Association for AI (EurAI) from 2014 to 2016, President of the International Joint Conference on AI (IJCAI) from 2015 to 2017, and President of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (IFAAMAS) from 2007-2009. He has published nine books, three of which have been translated into a total of seven different languages. In addition he has published more than 400 scientific articles.