Nick Jennings is Professor of Computer Science in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton University, where he carries out research in agent-based computing and complex adaptive systems. He is Deputy Head of School (Research), Head of the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group (which consists of some 120 research staff and postgraduate students), Director of the BAE Systems / EPSRC Strategic Partnership on Decentralised Data and Information Systems, and the Chief Scientific Officer for Lost Wax.
Professor Jennings helped pioneer the application of multi-agent technology. developing some of the first real-world systems. This focus led him into the areas of agent-based software engineering and the Semantic Grid. More recently, his focus is on automated bargaining, auctions, markets, mechanism design, coalition formation, decentralised control, and trust and reputation. In undertaking this research, he has published over 350 articles (with 180 co-authors) and graduated more than 20 PhD students. He is in the 72nd most cited computer scientist (1st for artificial intelligence) according to Libra, the 113th most cited computer scientist (4th in the UK) according to the CiteSeer digital library and has an h-index of 61 in Google Scholar (the top non-American). He has received a number of awards for his research: the Computers and Thought Award (the premier award for a young AI scientist) in 1999 (this is the only time in the Award's 35 year history that it has been given to someone based in Europe), an IEE Achievement Medal in 2000, and the ACM Autonomous Agents Research Award in 2003. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the British Computer Society, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (formerly the IEE), the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB), and the European artificial intelligence association (ECCAI) and a member of the UK Computing Research Committee (UKCRC) and Academia Europaea.
Nick co-initiated the ACM's Autonomous Agents Conference and the Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages (ATAL) workshop series, and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the German AI Institute (DFKI), a series editor for Springer-Verlag's Agent Technology series, and a founding director of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. He frequently advises Government and international agencies on strategic research development and has recently acted as an expert witness in a number of patent disputes. He has also led teams that have won competitions in the areas of: the Iterated Prisoners' Dilemma (the 20th Anniversary competitions in 2004 and 2005), RoboCup Rescue (the Infrastructure competition in 2007), Agent Trust and Reputation (the ART competitions in 2006 and 2007) and Mechanism Design (the TAC CAT competition in 2007).
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