Bo An
Scholar

Bo An

Google Scholar ID: PEEpuNwAAAAJ
Nanyang Technological University
Artificial intelligencemulti-agent systemsgame theoryreinforcement learningoptimization
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
8,477
 
H-index
43
 
i10-index
169
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
6
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • He has published over 150 refereed papers in top conferences (such as AAMAS, IJCAI, AAAI, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, KDD, ICAPS, EC, UAI, AISTATS, and WWW) and journals (such as JAAMAS, AIJ, and ACM/IEEE Transactions). His work on applying game theory to security has been used to develop randomization software deployed by the United States Federal Air Marshals Service, the United States Coast Guard, and wildlife conservation organizations. He has received several awards, including the 2010 IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award and the 2012 INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice.
Research Experience
  • He is currently a President's Chair Professor and Head of Division of Artificial Intelligence at the College of Computing and Data Science of Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He also serves as the Director for Centre of AI-for-X of NTU. During 2014-2018, he was a Nanyang Assistant Professor. Before joining NTU, he spent one year as an Associate Professor at the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Education
  • Before joining NTU in 2013, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Southern California from October 2010 to June 2012, working with Professor Milind Tambe. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he was advised by Professor Victor Lesser. Prior to that, he obtained B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from Chongqing University, China.
Background
  • Research interests include artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, computational game theory, reinforcement learning, automated negotiation, and optimization. His research results have been applied to e-commerce, sensor networks, distributed streaming processing systems, and cloud computing.
Miscellany
  • He will be the Program Chair of IJCAI'27 and is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Intelligent Systems. Additionally, he serves as an Associate Editor or editorial board member for several journals, including Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ), Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (JAAMAS), and others.