Nick Jennings (computer scientist)

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Nick Jennings

Jennings in April 2009
Born Nicholas Robert Jennings
(1966-12-15) 15 December 1966
London, England
Residence Bishop's Waltham
Fields
Institutions
Alma mater
Thesis Joint Intentions as a Model of Multi-Agent Cooperation (1992)
Doctoral advisor Abe Mamdani[2][3]
Doctoral students
  • Peyman Faratin
  • Gopal Ramchurn
  • Rajdeep Dash
  • Bing Shi[4]
Known for
Notable awards
Spouse Dr Joanne Jennings
Website
users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/nrj

Nicholas Robert Jennings, CB, FREng,[5] FIEEE, FIET, FBCS, CEng, CITP (born 15 December 1966) is the Regius Professor of Computer Science and Head of the Electronics and Computer Science Department [6] at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. He is an internationally recognised authority in the areas of artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, agent-based computing and cyber-security. He was involved in founding aerogility [7] and variab.ly[8] and was previously the Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government on National Security.[9]

Education

Nick was born in London. He grew up in Portland, Dorset, attended Weymouth Grammar School and studied for an undergraduate degree in computer science at the University of Exeter. His PhD was from the Department of Electronic Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London.[2]

Research

His research is in the broad area of artificial intelligence[1] and covers both the science and the engineering of intelligent systems.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] Specifically, he has undertaken fundamental research on automated bargaining, auctions, trust and reputation, coalitions and decentralised control. He has also pioneered the application of multi-agent technology; developing some of the first real-world systems—in domains such as business process management, energy systems/smart grids, sensor networks, disaster response, telecommunications, and eDefence—and generally advocating the area of agent-oriented software engineering. His most recent project, ORCHID,[20] pioneered the science of Human-Agent Collectives (HACs) in which humans and software agents collaborate in a seamless manner.

In undertaking this research, he has attracted grant income of over £24M (mainly from EPSRC[21]), published more than 550 articles (with some 350 co-authors[17]) and graduated more than 40 PhD students (including two winners and one runner-up of the BCS/CPHC Distinguished Dissertation Award.[22] He is recognised as highly cited by ISI Web of Science[23] in both the Engineering and the Computer Science categories, has over 60,000 citations in Google Scholar,[1] and has an h-index of 104.[24]

He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems and a founding director of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.[25] He has also led teams that have won competitions in the areas of: the Iterated Prisoners' Dilemma,[26] RoboCup (2007), Agent Trust and Reputation (the ART competitions in 2006 and 2007), the Lemonade Stand Game (2009 and 2010), competing marketplaces (2007), and technology-mediated social mobilisation and rapid information gathering (the US Department of State's Tag Challenge in 2012).

Career

From 1988 he was at Queen Mary, University of London, where he was a PhD student, research fellow, lecturer, reader and professor (he was appointed to a chair at the age of 31).

In 1999 he moved to the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton where he was the Deputy Head of Department (Research) (2001-2008), the Associate Dean (Research and Enterprise) for the Faculty of Engineering, Science and Maths (2008-2010), the Head of the Agents, Interaction and Complexity group (2011-2015) and the Head of Department (2015-). He was appointed the Regius Professor of Computer Science in 2014

From 2010 to 2015, he was the Chief Scientific Advisor for National Security to the UK Government.

He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to computer science and national security science.[27]

Fellowships

Personal life

He is married to Jo and they have two children, Anna and Matthew. He is a keen sportsman: playing cricket for Bishops Waltham Cricket Club,[28] managing a youth football team at Waltham Wolves,[29] and being an avid West Ham United Football Club fan.

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 Nick Jennings's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
  2. 1 2 Jennings, Nicholas (1992). Joint intentions as a model of multi-agent cooperation in complex dynamic environments (PhD thesis). Queen Mary, University of London.
  3. ↑ Dubois, D.; Prade, H. (2012). "Abe Mamdani: A Pioneer of Soft Artificial Intelligence". Combining Experimentation and Theory. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing 271. p. 49. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-24666-1_4. ISBN 978-3-642-24665-4.
  4. ↑ Nick Jennings at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. 1 2 3 4 "List of Fellows".
  6. ↑ http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk
  7. ↑ http://www.aerogility.com
  8. ↑ http://variab.ly/
  9. ↑ http://www.bis.gov.uk/go-science/science-in-government/chief-scientific-advisers
  10. ↑ http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/nrj Curriculum Vitae Nick Jennings
  11. ↑ Nick Jennings from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library
  12. ↑ Nick Jennings's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  13. ↑ Jennings, N. R. (2000). "On agent-based software engineering". Artificial Intelligence 117 (2): 277. doi:10.1016/S0004-3702(99)00107-1.
  14. ↑ Zambonelli, F.; Jennings, N. R.; Wooldridge, M. (2003). "Developing multiagent systems". ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 12 (3): 317. doi:10.1145/958961.958963.
  15. ↑ Jennings, N. R.; Faratin, P.; Lomuscio, A. R.; Parsons, S.; Wooldridge, M. J.; Sierra, C. (2001). "Automated Negotiation: Prospects, Methods and Challenges". Group Decision and Negotiation 10 (2): 199. doi:10.1023/A:1008746126376.
  16. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  17. 1 2 Nick Jennings's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
  18. ↑ Wooldridge, M.; Jennings, N. R. (2009). "Intelligent agents: Theory and practice". The Knowledge Engineering Review 10 (2): 115. doi:10.1017/S0269888900008122.
  19. ↑ Wooldridge, M.; Jennings, N. R. (1995). "Agent theories, architectures, and languages: A survey". Intelligent Agents. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 890. p. 1. doi:10.1007/3-540-58855-8_1. ISBN 978-3-540-58855-9.
  20. ↑ http://orchid.ac.uk
  21. ↑ Grants awarded to Nick Jennings by the EPSRC
  22. ↑ http://www.bcs.org/category/5820 BCS/CPHC Distinguished Dissertation Award
  23. ↑ http://www.highlycited.com/ ISI Web of Science
  24. ↑ http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~palsberg/h-number.html The h Index for Computer Science by Jens Palsbergg
  25. ↑ http://www.ifaamas.org
  26. ↑ [the 20th Anniversary competitions in 2004 and 2005
  27. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 61450. p. N3. 30 December 2015.
  28. ↑ http://bishopswaltham.play-cricket.com
  29. ↑ http://www.walthamwolves.co.uk
  30. ↑ http://sigai.acm.org/awards/autonomous_agents_award.html ACM Autonomous Agents Research Award
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