Michael Wooldridge#
| Membership Number: | 4005 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/michael.wooldridge |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - present Professor, University of Oxford: (Head of Department of Computer Science 2014-present)
- 2000 - 2012, Professor, University of Liverpool: (Head of Department 2001-2005; Head of School 2008-2012)
- 1997 - 1999 Lecturer and Reader, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London: Reader (1998-99); lecturer (1997-98)
- 1996 - 1997 Software Architect, Mitsubishi Electric Digital Library Group/Zuno LTD.
- 1992 - 1996 Lecturer, Manchester Metropolital University
Fields of Scholarship
- Multi-agent systems
- Knowledge representation
- Artificial intelligence
- Computer science
Honours and Awards
- 2026 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2025 Royal Society of London Michael Faraday Prize
- 2023 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. Wooldridge was the 300th guest on The Life Scientific interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili at the Royal Institution in London
- 2021 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Award
- 2020 BCS Lovelace Medal
- 2015 Elected an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow. For contributions to multi-agent systems and the formalisation of rational action in multi-agent environments
- 2012 - 2017 ERC Advanced Investigator Grant "RACE" (5 year €2m award)
- 2009 Elected Fellow, British Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB).
- 2008 Elected Fellow, American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). See: http://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows.php
- 2008 Influential Paper Award, Special Recognition from the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, for the paper Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice, Knowledge Engineering Review 10(2):115–152, 1995.
- 2007 Elected Fellow, European Association for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI). See: http://www.eccai.org/fellows.shtm
- 2006 Winner of ACM Autonomous Agents Research Award. Awarded annually by ACM to an individual whose research has been particularly influential over the preceding 5 years. See: http://sigai.acm.org/awards/autonomous_agents_award.html
