Moshe Tennenholtz
{{Short description|Israeli computer scientist}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Moshe Tennenholtz
| native_name = משה טננהולץ
| native_name_lang = he
| image =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|13 August 1960}}
| birth_place = Haifa, Israel
| field = Computer science
Game theory
| work_institution = Stanford University
Technion
Microsoft Research
| alma_mater = Tel Aviv University
Weizmann Institute
| doctoral_advisor =
| awards = AAAI Fellow
ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award
ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award IJCAI John McCarthy Award
ACM Fellow
}}
Moshe Tennenholtz (Hebrew: משה טננהולץ) is an Israeli computer scientist and professor with the faculty of Data and Decision Sciences at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he holds the Sondheimer Technion Academic Chair.{{cite web|title=Moshe Tennenholtz|url=https://web.iem.technion.ac.il/en/people/userprofile/Moshet.html|website=Industrial Engineering and Management Faculty|publisher=Technion|accessdate=11 April 2017|language=en-us}}
Biography
Tennenholtz received his B.Sc. in mathematics from Tel Aviv University in 1986, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in 1987 and 1991 respectively from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science in the Weizmann Institute. From 1991 to 1993 he worked in the Robotics Laboratory at Stanford University, after which he joined the faculty at the Technion in Haifa. He returned to Stanford briefly as a visiting professor from 1999 to 2002 before returning to the Technion. In 2008 he started working at Microsoft Research and in 2011 he founded the basic research group at the Microsoft Israel R&D center.{{cite web|title=The Microsoft Technion Alliance|url=http://pard.technion.ac.il/microsoft-allies-with-technion-israel/|website=Technion External Relations and Resource Development|publisher=Technion|accessdate=11 April 2017}}{{cite web|last1=Shelah|first1=Shmulik|title=Microsoft to invest $1.5m in Technion e-commerce research - Globes English|url=http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-1000689278|website=Globes|date=9 October 2011 |accessdate=11 April 2017|language=he}} He has served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, associate editor of Games and Economic Behavior, the international journal
of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, served on the editorial board of the
Journal of Machine Learning Research, and served on the editorial board of AI Magazine. He served as program chair of the ACM Electronic
Commerce conference and of the TARK conference.
Recognition
He is an AAAI Fellow, an ACM fellow, and a fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory. He is a winner of the Allen Newell award and of the John McCarthy award for pioneering contributions to the interplay between artificial intelligence and game theory. He also received the
ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award for 2012.{{cite web|last1=Knies|first1=Bob|title=Tennenholtz Wins Multi-Agent Award - Microsoft Research|url=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/tennenholtz-wins-multi-agent-award/|website=Microsoft Research|accessdate=11 April 2017|date=6 January 2012}}
He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to AI and algorithmic game theory".{{citation|url=https://www.acm.org/media-center/2019/december/fellows-2019|title=2019 ACM Fellows Recognized for Far-Reaching Accomplishments that Define the Digital Age|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|accessdate=2019-12-11}}
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Category:Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Category:2019 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Category:Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Category:Tel Aviv University alumni
Category:Weizmann Institute of Science alumni
Category:Stanford University faculty
Category:Artificial intelligence researchers
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