Scholar
Fernando P. Santos
Google Scholar ID: Ps7iXn0AAAAJ
Informatics Institute (IvI), University of Amsterdam
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,742
H-index
20
i10-index
32
Publications
20
Co-authors
53
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the Victor Lesser Dissertation Award (2018), APPIA Best Thesis in AI (2017-2018), and INESC-ID PhD Student award (2018). Selected for the AAAI-23 New Faculty Highlights program. Elected as an ELLIS Scholar.
Research Experience
- Currently an Associate Professor at the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam, leading the Prosocial Dynamics Lab and serving as a scientific lab manager of the Civic AI Lab. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton.
Education
- PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (2018), supervised by Francisco C. Santos, Jorge M. Pacheco, and Ana Paiva. Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton with Simon A. Levin, supported by a James S. McDonnell Foundation Fellowship.
Background
- Associate Professor at the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam, researching at the interface of AI and Complex Systems, studying behavioral dynamics in systems of adaptive learning agents, and aiming to design prosocial/fair AI.
Miscellany
- Attending AAMAS 2025 and presenting in multiple workshops; participating in international conferences such as ECAI, Network Science Institute; awarded NWO-M grant to study cooperation and reputation in multi-agent reinforcement learning; received ERC Starting Grant to study the impacts of algorithmic recommendations on social dynamics.
