Michael N. Huhns

Michael N. Huhns is the NCR Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Carolina, affiliated with the Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing. He previously served as Department Chair and Director of the USC Center for Information Technology. He holds a BSE from the University of Michigan (1969), M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California (1971, 1975).

His research spans multiagent systems, service-oriented computing, ontology-based systems, and computational sociotechnical systems. He has authored over 250 papers and 11 books, including seminal works like Service-Oriented Computing: Semantics, Processes, Agents. He holds a patent for distributed computer system architecture and has received accolades such as IEEE Fellowship and AAAI Fellowship.

Research interests emphasize distributed intelligence, system robustness, and socio-technical interactions. His articles explore agent negotiation, cloud-based systems, and ethical AI. Notable grants include projects on information dominance, healthcare systems, and environmental sensor networks.

• Awards: IEEE Fellow, AAAI Fellow, APAIA Fellow
• Advising: Supervised 12 PhD students and over 40 M.S. theses
• Labs/Teams: Founder of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems