Michael Wooldridge

Michael Wooldridge is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at Hertford College, having served as Head of Department from 2014-2021. He leads research in artificial intelligence with over 450 publications in multi-agent systems, game theory, and machine learning.

His research examines computational approaches to multi-agent coordination, strategic reasoning, and trustworthy AI. Current projects explore foundations of trustworthy AI through theoretical frameworks for rational verification and equilibrium analysis in complex interactive systems.

Recent publications demonstrate increasing focus on large language models and their applications in multi-agent coordination, security challenges in generative AI, and computational social systems. Research integrates theoretical work with experimental validation in complex simulation environments.

Honors include:

• Lovelace Medal (BCS, 2020)
• ACM Autonomous Agents Research Award (2006)
• AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Award (2021)
• European Association for AI Distinguished Service Award (2023)

He currently supervises doctoral students in multi-agent reinforcement learning and game-theoretic verification. Major grants include a Turing AI World Leading Researcher Fellowship (UKRI, 2021) and ERC Advanced Grant 'Reasoning About Computational Economies' (2011).

As Editor-in-Chief of Artificial Intelligence Journal and former president of IJCAI, EurAI, and IFAAMAS, he maintains extensive professional service commitments while leading the Whiteson Research Lab.