Bo An

Bo An is a President's Chair Professor and Head of the Division of Artificial Intelligence at the College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He also holds a courtesy appointment as Professor at the School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences and serves as Director of the Centre of AI-for-X. Previously, he was a Nanyang Assistant Professor (2014-2018), Associate Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2012-2013), and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Southern California (2010-2012). His academic journey began with B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Chongqing University, followed by a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (advised by Victor Lesser).

• Research Interests:
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Computational Game Theory
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Automated Negotiation
  • Optimization
• Research Impact: Applications in infrastructure security (deployed by US Coast Guard and Federal Air Marshals), e-commerce, sensor networks, and financial technology. Over 150 publications in top venues like AAMAS, IJCAI, AAAI, ICML, NeurIPS, KDD, and ACM/IEEE Transactions.
• Scientific Recognition:
  • 2010 IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award
  • 2012 INFORMS Wagner Prize
  • 2018 & 2022 Nanyang Research Awards
  • 2017 Microsoft Collaborative AI Challenge
  • IEEE Intelligent Systems 'AI's 10 to Watch' (2018)
• Leadership Roles: Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Intelligent Systems, Associate Editor for AIJ, JAAMAS, and ACM Transactions. Served as General Co-Chair for AAMAS'23 and Program Chair for IJCAI'27.