Ulle Endriss appointed professor of Artificial Intelligence and Collective Decision Making

Ulle Endriss has been appointed professor of Artificial Intelligence and Collective Decision Making. Endriss has been affiliated with the UvA's Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) since 2005, first as Assistant Professor and then as Associate Professor. He pursues an innovative research agenda in Artificial Intelligence (AI) dedicated to the design and analysis of mechanisms that enable people and autonomous software agents to take decisions together. He has made sustained contributions to the areas of Multiagent Systems and Knowledge Representation within AI, and he is known as one of the founders of the field of Computational Social Choice, situated at the interface of AI with Economics and Political Science.