{"id":477,"date":"2018-03-06T19:07:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T19:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2018-03-06T19:07:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T19:07:45","slug":"acmsigai-autonomous-agents-research-award-2018-craig-boutilier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/main\/2018\/03\/06\/acmsigai-autonomous-agents-research-award-2018-craig-boutilier\/","title":{"rendered":"ACM\/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award 2018: Craig Boutilier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 in applying decision-theoretic concepts in novel ways in a variety of domains including (single- and multi-agent) planning and reinforcement learning, preference elicitation, voting, matching, facility location, and recommender systems. His recent research continues to significantly influence the field of computational social choice through the novel computational and methodological tools he introduced and his focus on modeling realistic preferences. In addition to his reputation for outstanding research, Dr. Boutilier is also recognized as an exceptional teacher and mentor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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