2025 Award Call
Nominations are solicited for the 2025 ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award. This award is made for excellence in research in the area of autonomous agents. It is intended to recognize researchers in autonomous agents whose current work is an important influence on the field. The award is an official ACM award, funded by an endowment created by ACM SIGAI from the proceeds of previous Autonomous Agents conferences. The recipient of the award will receive a monetary prize and a certificate, and will be invited to present a plenary talk at the AAMAS 2025 conference.
How to Nominate
Anyone can make a nomination. Nominations should be made by filling out the below google form, and should consist of a short (< 1 page) statement that emphasizes not only the research contributions that the individual has made that merit the award but also how the individual’s current work is an important influence on the field.
NOTE: a candidate can only be considered for the award if they are explicitly nominated. If you believe that someone deserves the award, then NOMINATE THEM — don’t assume that somebody else will!
For any questions please contact Edith Elkind (Award Chair, edith.elkind@northwestern.edu) or Nicholas Mattei (SIGAI Vice Chair, nsmattei@gmail.com).
Nomination Link: https://forms.gle/jud5hniSWtkrENqZ7
Important Dates
- 15 January 2025 — Deadline for nominations
- 15 February 2025 — Announcement of winner
- 19-23 May 2025 — AAMAS-2025 conference in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Past Winners
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Catholijn Jonker (2024 Autonomous Agents Research Award)
The selection committee for the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Professor Catholijn Jonker is the recipient of the 2024 award. Professor Catholijn Jonker is full professor of Interactive Intelligence at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science of the Delft University of Technology. Professor Jonker is a leader…
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Edith Elkind (2023 Autonomous Agents Research Award)
The selection committee for the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Professor Edith Elkind is the recipient of the 2023 award. Edith Elkind is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. Her work provides fundamental understanding of economic paradigms in multiagent systems, with a particular focus on computational…
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Maria Gini (2022 Autonomous Agents Research Award)
The selection committee for the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Professor Maria Gini is the recipient of the 2022 award. Professor Maria Gini is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Professor Gini has been a leader in the field of robotics and multi-agent systems for…
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Vincent Conitzer (2021 Autonomous Agents Research Award)
The selection committee for the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Professor Vincent Conitzer is the recipient of the 2021 award. Professor Conitzer is the Distinguished University Professor of New Technologies and Professor of Computer Science, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Philosophy at Duke University, as well as Head of…
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Munindar Singh (2020 Autonomous Agents Research Award)
The selection committee for the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Professor Munindar Singh is the recipient of the 2020 award. Professor Singh is the Alumni Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. This award acknowledges his extensive contributions to our understanding of social interaction and autonomy in…
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Carles Sierra (2019 Autonomous Agents Research Award)
The selection committee for the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Professor Carles Sierra is the recipient of the 2019 award. Professor Sierra is Vice-Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He has made seminal contributions to research on negotiation and argumentation, computational…
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Craig Boutilier (2018 Autonomous Agents Research Award)
The selection committee for the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Dr. Craig Boutilier, Principal Research Scientist at Google, is the recipient of the 2018 award. Over the years, Dr. Boutilier has made seminal contributions to research on decision-making under uncertainty, game theory, and computational social choice. He is a pioneer…
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David Parkes (2017 Autonomous Agents Research Award)
The selection committee for the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Prof. David Parkes of Harvard University is the recipient of the 2017 award. Prof. Parkes’ research has explored a variety of topics in multiagent systems and economics. His early work on combinatorial auctions made fundamental contributions to the theory of…
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Peter Stone (2016 Autonomous Agents Research Award)
The selection committee for the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Prof. Peter Stone of the University of Texas at Austin is the recipient of the 2016 award. Prof. Stone’s work is exceptional in both its breadth and depth in multiagent systems. Some of his most influential work has been in…
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Catherine Pelachaud (2015 Autonomous Agents Research Award)
The selection committee for the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Dr. Catherine Pelachaud, Director of Research at CNRS at Telecom ParisTech is the recipient of the 2015 award. Dr. Pelachaud is honored for her sustained and substantial contributions to the area of intelligent virtual agents. Her seminal work in this…
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Michael Wellman (2014 Autonomous Agents Research Award)
The selection committee for the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Prof. Michael Wellman of the University of Michigan is the recipient of the 2014 award. Prof. Wellman has had a profound and broad impact across an array of research challenges in autonomous agents and multiagent systems. Prof. Wellman’s contributions range…
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Jeff Rosenschein (2013 Autonomous Agents Research Award)
The selection committee for the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2013 award is Professor Jeffrey S. Rosenschein (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel). Professor Rosenschein is honoured for his pioneering work on the use of game theory in multi-agent systems. Among Professor Rosenschein’s many contributions in…
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Moshe Tennenholtz (2012 Autonomous Agents Research Award)
The selection committee for the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2012 award is Professor Moshe Tennenholtz (Technion/Microsoft Research Israel). Professor Tennenholtz is honoured for his substantial and sustained contributions to the foundations of multi-agent systems. His contributions range from the first formal studies of social laws…
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Joe Halpern (2011 Autonomous Agents Research Award)
The selection committee for the ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2011 award is Professor Joe Halpern of Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Professor Halpern is honoured for his substantial and enormously influential contributions to the logical foundations of multi-agent systems, in particular, the computational foundations and…
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Jonathan Gratch and Stacy Marsella (2010 Autonomous Agents Research Award)
The selection committee for the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Prof. Jonathan Gratch and Prof. Stacy Marsella from the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies are the joint recipients of the 2010 award. Prof. Marsella and Prof. Gratch have made significant and sustained contributions to autonomous agents and…
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Manuela M. Veloso (2009 Autonomous Agents Research Award)
The selection committee for the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Prof. Manuela M. Veloso of Carnegie Mellon University is the recipient of the 2009 award. Prof. Veloso has made significant and sustained contributions to Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems in the areas of planning and control learning in multi-agent systems.…
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Yoav Shoham (2008 Autonomous Agents Research Award)
The selection committee for the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Prof. Yoav Shoham of Stanford University is the recipient of the 2008 award. Prof. Shoham has made significant and sustained contributions to Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems in the areas of logic and game theory. He has made contributions on…
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Sarit Kraus (2007 Autonomous Agents Research Award)
The selection committee for the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Prof Sarit Kraus, of Bar-Ilan University, Israel, is the recipient of the 2007 award. Prof Kraus is well known for her work on formal models of multi-agent systems. In particular, she pioneered the development of techniques for computational negotiation, automated…
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Michael Woolridge (2006 Autonomous Agents Research Award)
The selection committee for the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Dr. Michael Wooldridge of the University of Liverpool, UK is the recipient of the 2006 award. Dr. Wooldridge has made significant and sustained contributions to the research on autonomous agents and multi agent systems. In particular, Dr. Wooldridge has made…
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Milind Tambe (2005 Autonomous Agents Research Award)
The selection committee for the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Dr. Milind Tambe of the University of Southern California is the recipient of the 2005 award. Dr. Tambe has made significant and sustained contributions to the research on autonomous agents and multi agent systems. In particular, Dr. Tambe made seminal…
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Makoto Yokoo (2004 Autonomous Agents Research Award Winner)
The selection committee for the SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Dr. Makoto Yokoo of the NTT Communication Science Laboratories is the recipient of the 2004 award. Dr. Yokoo has made significant and sustained contributions to the research on autonomous agents and multi agent systems. In particular, Dr. Yokoo made seminal…
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Nick Jennings (2003 Autonomous Agents Research Award Winner)
Prof. Jennings has undertaken a broad research agenda that continues to have a broad impact on the agent research community. His work is consistently among the most frequently cited agent researchers, both within the agent research community and in the computer science literature in general. He has developed a number of agent-based applications in a…
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Katia Sycara (2002 Autonomous Agents Research Award Winner)
Katia Sycara of Carnegie Mellon University has been awarded the ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award for 2002. Dr. Sycara has made significant contributions to a number of subareas of agent research, including agent architectures, middle agents, and multi-agent negotiation. She has played a major role in organizing the Journal Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems,…
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Tuomas Sandholm (2001 Autonomous Agents Research Award Winner)
The winner of the 2001 award is Tuomas Sandholm, of Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Sandholm has conducted an intensive research program in electronic markets and multi-agent systems, and has also done work in other areas of autonomous agents. The breadth and depth of his contributions over a relatively short period of time are impressive. In…