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Career Panel Biographies
Prof. Carles Sierra is Full Professor at the Institute of Research on Artificial Intelligence of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. He received the M.S. in Computer Science (1986) and the Ph. D. in Computer Science (1989) from the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain. His current research interests include: formal methods, distributed systems, uncertainty, and robotics. Recently, he has been particularly active in the area of multi-agent systems, especially on methodological aspects and on trust modeling. He has participated in around forty research projects funded by the European Commission and the Spanish Government, and has published around three hundred papers in specialized scientific journals, conferences and workshops. He is member of the program committees of around a dozen of conferences and workshops per year, and is a member of seven journal editorial boards including AIJ, JAIR and JAAMAS. He has been General Chair of the conference Autonomous Agents 2000 in Barcelona, AAMAS 2009 in Budapest, and PC chair of the AAMAS 2004 Conference in New York. He has been the local chair for IJCAI 2011 in Barcelona.
Prof. Maria Gini is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. She works to design autonomous systems that are capable of making autonomous decisions. This includes autonomous robots, economic agents, allocation of tasks, and learning of opponent behaviors. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems, Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, and Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering. She is a Fellow of AAAI, a Distinguished Scientist of ACM, and a Distinguished Professor of the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota.
Prof. Sven Koenig is a program director at the National Science Foundation and a professor in computer science at the University of Southern California. Most of his research centers around techniques for decision making (planning and learning) that enable single situated agents (such as robots or decision-support systems) and teams of agents to act intelligently in their environments and exhibit goal-directed behavior in real-time, even if they have only incomplete knowledge of their environment, imperfect abilities to manipulate it, limited or noisy perception or insufficient reasoning speed. Additional information Sven can be found on his webpages: idm-lab.org.
Dr David Pennock is a Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research in New York City, where he leads a group focused on algorithmic economics. Pennock's job is to dream up technologies that are disruptive and revolutionary, either commercially, scientifically, or both. He has over fifty academic publications relating to electronic commerce and the web, including papers in PNAS, Science, IEEE Computer, Theoretical Computer Science, AAAI, EC, and WWW. He has given over thirty talks and authored one patent and ten patent applications. In 2005, he was named to MIT Technology Review's list of 35 top technology innovators under age 35 having the potential to profoundly impact the world. Pennock is at the forefront of a growing vanguard of computer scientists and economists who are working together to investigate the role of computation in economic theory and to design and build the marketplaces of the digital age. One of his primary areas of expertise is the design and analysis of prediction markets.
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