Moshe Tennenholtz

Moshe Tennenholtz is an Israeli computer scientist and professor with the faculty of Data and Decision Sciences at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he holds the Sondheimer Technion Academic Chair.^[1]

Moshe Tennenholtz
Born	13 August 1960 (1960-08-13) (age 64) Haifa, Israel
Alma mater	Tel Aviv University Weizmann Institute
Awards	AAAI Fellow ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award IJCAI John McCarthy Award ACM Fellow
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science Game Theory
Institutions	Stanford University Technion Microsoft Research

Biography

Tennenholtz received his B.Sc. in mathematics from Tel Aviv University 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.^[2][3] He has served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, associate editor of Games and Economic Behavior, 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, an ACM fellow, and a fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory. 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.^[4] He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to AI and algorithmic game theory".^[5]

References

1. "Moshe Tennenholtz". Industrial Engineering and Management Faculty. Technion. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
2. "The Microsoft Technion Alliance". Technion External Relations and Resource Development. Technion. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
3. Shelah, Shmulik (9 October 2011). "Microsoft to invest $1.5m in Technion e-commerce research - Globes English". Globes (in Hebrew). Retrieved 11 April 2017.
4. Knies, Bob (6 January 2012). "Tennenholtz Wins Multi-Agent Award - Microsoft Research". Microsoft Research. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
5. 2019 ACM Fellows Recognized for Far-Reaching Accomplishments that Define the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2019-12-11