Professor Edith Elkind (Professor of Computing Science and Research Fellow in Computational Game Theory) has won the 2023 ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award for excellence in research in the area of autonomous agents.
The ACM/SIGAI is the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence, which promotes and supports the growth and application of AI principles and techniques from computing. Its annual award ‘for excellence in research in the area of autonomous agents … is intended to recognise researchers in autonomous agents whose current work is an important influence on the field.’
Edith Elkind (Professor of Computing Science and Research Fellow in Computational Game Theory) was given the award because she has ‘made significant research contributions in computational social choice and algorithms for cooperative games’, and for her ‘extraordinary service to the community’. You can read more about her work here.