Moshe Tennenholtz is an Israeli computer scientist and professor with the faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at the

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology ( he, הטכניון – מכון טכנולוגי לישראל) is a public research university located in Haifa, Israel. Established in 1912 under the dominion of the Ottoman Empire, the Technion ...

, where he holds the Sondheimer Technion Academic Chair.

Biography

Tennenholtz received his B.Sc. in mathematics from

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

in 1986, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in 1987 and 1991 respectively from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science in the Weizmann Institute. From 1991 to 1993 he worked in the Robotics Laboratory at Stanford University, after which he joined the faculty at the Technion in Haifa. He returned to Stanford briefly as a visiting professor from 1999 to 2002 before returning to the Technion. In 2008 he started working at Microsoft Research and in 2011 he founded the basic research group at the Microsoft Israel R&D center. He has served as editor-in-chief of the ''

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research The ''Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research'' (''JAIR'') is an open access peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in all areas of artificial intelligence. History It was established in 1993 as one of the first scientific journa ...

'', associate editor of ''

Games and Economic Behavior ''Games and Economic Behavior'' (''GEB'') is a journal of game theory published by Elsevier. Founded in 1989, the journal's stated objective is to communicate game-theoretic ideas across theory and applications. It is considered to be the lead ...

'', the international journal of '' Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems'', served on the editorial board of the '' Journal of Machine Learning Research'', and served on the editorial board of '' AI Magazine''. He served as program chair of the ACM Electronic Commerce conference and of the TARK conference.

Recognition

He is an

AAAI Fellow Fellowship of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (abbreviated as AAAI Fellow or FAAAI) is an award granted to individuals that the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), judged to have made ...

, an ACM fellow, and a fellow of the

Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory The Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory abbreviated as SAET is a non-profit membership society founded to "advance knowledge in theoretical economics and to facilitate communication among researchers in economics, mathematics, game theor ...

. He is a winner of the Allen Newell award and of the John McCarthy award for pioneering contributions to the interplay between artificial intelligence and game theory. He also received the ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award for 2012. He was elected as an

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in 2019 "for contributions to AI and algorithmic game theory".

References

Living people Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Game theorists Technion – Israel Institute of Technology faculty Tel Aviv University alumni Weizmann Institute of Science alumni Stanford University faculty Artificial intelligence researchers 1960 births {{compu-scientist-stub