معرفی
Bart Selman holds the Joseph C. Ford Professorship of Engineering and Computer Science at Cornell University, serving as President-Elect of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and co-Chair of the U.S. national AI research roadmap initiative. Previously at AT&T Bell Laboratories, he maintains active leadership in shaping global AI research priorities and policy.
His interdisciplinary research spans core artificial intelligence domains including Computational Sustainability, Knowledge Representation, Deep Learning, and Reinforcement Learning, with notable investigations into connections between Computer Science and Statistical Physics. This work bridges theoretical foundations with real-world applications in efficient reasoning systems and sustainable computing.
Major recognitions include:
- IJCAI John McCarthy Research Award (inaugural recipient)
- Triple fellowship: AAAI, AAAS, and ACM
- NSF Career Award and Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship
- Cornell University teaching excellence honors
- Nine paper awards (six best, two classic)
With over 150 publications across Nature, Science, and premier AI venues, his scholarship demonstrates sustained impact across theoretical and applied artificial intelligence.
