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Michael John Wooldridge (born 1966) is a professor of computer science at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. His main research interests is in multi-agent systems, in particular, in the computational aspects of rational action in systems composed of multiple self-interested agents. His work is characterised by the use of techniques from computational logic, game theory, and social choice theory.

Academic career
Michael Wooldridge wrote his dissertation The Logical Modelling of Computational Multi-agent Systems at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, where he obtained his PhD in 1992. In the same year he accepted the position of lecturer in Computer Science at the Manchester Metropolitan University. In 1996 he moved to London, where he became senior lecturer at Queen Mary and Westfield College in 1998. His appointment as full professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool followed in 1999. In Liverpool he served as Head of Department from 2001 to 2005 and as head of the School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics, and Computer Science from 2008 to 2011. In 2012 the European Research Council awarded him a five-year ERC Advanced Grant for the project Reasoning about Computational Economies (RACE). In the same year he left Liverpool to become become professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, where he has been Head of Department since 2014. In Oxford he is a Senior Research Fellow of Hertford College.

Michael Wooldridge is author of more than 300 academic publications , and ranks among the top 100 most cited researchers in computer science according to Microsoft Academic Search. He is further honoured as an AAAI Fellow, an ECCAI Fellow, an AISB Fellow, and a BCS Fellow. In 2015 he was made ACM Fellow for his ''contributions to multi-agent systems and the formalization of rational action in multi-agent environments.

Awards and Honours

 * 2015 ACM Fellow. For: ''Contributions to multi-agent systems and the formalization of rational action in multi-agent environments."
 * 2012-17 ERC Advanced Investigator Grant "Reasoning about Computational Economies (RACE)" (5 year €2m award)
 * 2009 British Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB) Fellow
 * 2008 American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fellow
 * 2008 Influential Paper Award, Special Recognition from the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, for the paper Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice, Knowledge Engineering Review 10(2):115–152, 1995.
 * 2007 European Association for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) Fellow
 * 2006 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award. For: significant and sustained contributions to the research on autonomous agents and multi agent systems. In particular, Dr. Wooldridge has made seminal contributions to the logical foundations of multi-agent systems, especially to formal theories of cooperation, teamwork and communication, computational complexity in multi-agent systems, and agent-oriented software engineering.

Editorships
Other editorships: Journal of Applied Logic, Journal of Logic and Computation, Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence, and Computational Intelligence.
 * 2003-2009 co-editor-in-chief of the Journal Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
 * 2006-2009 associate editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
 * 2009-2012 associate editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)

Personal
Michael Wooldridge was born in Wakefield (West Yorkshire, United Kingdom) in 1966 as the second son to John and Jean Wooldridge. He is married with two children.