ACM SIGAI 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 Edith Elkind is the recipient of the 2023 award.

Edith Elkind is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. Her work provides fundamental understanding of economic paradigms in multiagent systems, with a particular focus on computational social choice and game theory. She has made important contributions to the computational analysis of cooperative games, as well as to the studies of structured domains in elections, and hedonic games. Professor Elkind supervised two PhD theses that won the Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award. Her service to the community has been extraordinary; among many other roles, she has served both as a program chair and a general chair for AAMAS, and as a program chair for IJCAI, ACM EC, WINE, and COMSOC.