Each year AAAI recognizes outstanding service by members of the AAAI Conference senior program and program committees through these awards, which are presented at the conference.
Outstanding Senior Program Committee Member Awards
2021
- Craig Boutilier (Google Research, USA)
- Tathagata Chakraborti (IBM Research, USA)
- Dan Cosley (Cornell University, USA)
- Thomas Keller (University of Basel, Switzerland)
- Nicholas Mattei (Tulane University, USA)
- Florian Pommerening (University of Basel, Switzerland)
- Rishiraj Saha Roy (Max Planck Insitute for Informatics, Germany)
- Kartik Talamadupula (IBM Research, USA)
- Florent Teichteil-Koenigsbuch (Airbus Central Research and Technology, France)
- Xiting Wang (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
- Fangzhao Wu (Microsoft Research Asia)
2020
- Anelia Angelova (Google, USA)
- Michele Flammini (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy)
- Zhe Gan (Microsoft, USA)
- Thomas Keller (University of Basel, Switzerland)
- Junyi Jessy Li (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
- Dominik Peters (University of Oxford, UK)
- Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
- Miquel Ramirez (University of Melbourne, Australia)
- Sylvie Thiébaux (The Australian National University, Australia)
- Jenna Wiens (University of Michigan, USA)
- Yair Zick (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
2019
- Xiang Bai (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
- Hendrik Blockeel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
- Zico Kolter (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
- Michele Lombardi (Università di Bologna, Italy)
- Aditya Menon (Google Research, USA)
- Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University, UK)
2018
- Jörg Hoffmann (Saarland University, Germany)
2017
- Thomas Eiter (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
- Jussi Rintanen (Aalto University, Finland)
- Sven Koenig (University of Southern California, USA)
2016
- No award given
2015
- Vincent Conitzer (Duke University, USA)
- Robert Holte (University of Alberta, Canada)
- Francesca Rossi (University of Padova, Italy)
2014
- Adele Howe (Colorado State University, USA)
- Malte Helmert (University of Basel, Switzerland)
- Dragos Margineantu (Boeing, USA)
2013
- Ariel Felner (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
- David Pynadath (USC Institute for Creative Technologies, USA)
- Neil Yorke-Smith (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
2012
- Edith Elkind (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
- Roni Khardon (Tufts University, USA)
2011
- José Neira (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
- Kilian Q. Weinberger (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
2010
- Jérôme Lang (IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, France)
2008
- Richard Korf (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
2007
- Gerhard Brewka (University of Leipzig, Germany)
2006
- Brian Williams (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
2005
- Gaurav S. Sukhatme (University of Southern California, USA)
Outstanding Program Committee Member Awards
2021
- Martin Aleksandrov (TU Berlin, Germany)
- Antoine Amarilli (Télécom Paris, France)
- Gregor Behnke (University of Freiburg, Germany)
- Pascal Bercher (Australian National University, Australia)
- Manuel Ciosici (Information Sciences Institute, USA)
- Lavindra de Silva (University of Cambridge, UK)
- Jinhong Jung (Seoul National University, South Korea)
- Ulrich Junker (France)
- Dušan Knop (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
- Anna Latour (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
- Alessandro Ronca (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
- Thiago Serra (Bucknell University, USA)
- David Smith (PSresearch, USA)
2020
- Ingo Pill (TU Graz, Austria)
- Sarath Sreedharan (Arizona State University, USA)
- Sergio Mover (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
- Alexander D’Amour (Google Brain, USA)
- Rodrigo de Salvo Braz (SRI International, USA)
- Chris Harshaw (Yale University, USA)
- Andrzej Kaczmarczyk (TU Berlin, Germany)
- Dario Bertero (Hitachi, Ltd., Japan)
- Mahmoud Assran (McGill University / Facebook AI Research, Canada)
- Brais Martínez (Samsung AI Research, USA)
- Konstantin Mishchenko (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
- Mak Roberts (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
2019
- Pascal Bercher (University of Ulm, Germany)
- Stephen Cranefield (University of Otago, New Zealand)
- Sheng-Jun Huang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
- Dan Malinsky (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
- Giovanni Sileno (Télécom ParisTech, France)
2018
- Thomas Buehler (Avira, Germany)
- Olivier Buffet (LORIA/INRIA, France)
- Robin Burke (DePaul University, USA)
- Anthony Hoogs (Kitware, Inc., USA)
- Liping Jing (Beijing Jiaotong University, China)
- Lars Kotthoff (University of British Columbia, Canada)
- Jonas Kvarnstrom (Linköping University, Sweden)
- Xiangyuan Lan (Hong Kong Baptist University)
- Niklas Lavesson (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
- Haiping Lu (The University of Sheffield, UK)
- Ifeoma Nwogu (University of Buffalo, USA)
- Ingo Pill (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
- Anna Rafferty (Carleton College, USA)
- Miquel Ramirez (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
- Mark Roberts (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
- Francisco Jesus Rodriguez Ruiz (Columbia University, USA)
- Michael Schober (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany)
- Nisarg Shah (University of Toronto, Canada)
- Erik Talvitie (Franklin and Marshall College, USA)
- Carsten Witt (Technical University of Denmark)
2017
- Luis Ortiz (University of Michigan – Dearborn, USA)
- Aris Filos-Ratsikas (University of Oxford, UK)
- Ingo Pill (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
- Miquel Ramirez (University of Melbourne, Australia)
- Christer Bäckström (Linköping University, Sweden)
- Richard Valenzano (University of Toronto, Canada)
2016
- No award given
2015
- Christopher Amato (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
- Travis Mandel (University of Washington, United States)
- Nicholas Mattei (NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia)
- Ingo Pill (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
- Erik Talvitie (Franklin and Marshall College, United States)
- Paul Vernaza (Carnegie Mellon University, United States)
- Xinhua Zhang (University of Alberta, Canada)
2014
- Johannes Fürnkranz (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
- Andrey Kolobov (Microsoft Research, USA)
- Ulle Endriss (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Umberto Grandi (University of Padova, Italy)
2013
- Paul Harrenstein (University of Oxford, UK)
- Malte Helmert (University of Basel, Switzerland)
- Kristian Kersting (Fraunhofer IAIS and University of Bonn, Germany)
- Steven Okamoto (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
- Gabriele Röger (University of Basel, Switzerland)
- Ashish Sabharwal (IBM Watson Research Center, USA)
2012
- Lloyd T. Elliott (University College London, United Kingdom)
- Andrey Kolobov (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
- Scott Sanner (NICTA, Australia)
- Kiri Wagstaff (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA)
2011
- Shane Bergsma (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
2010
- Chris Beck (University of Toronto, Canada)
2008
- Carlos Linares (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
2007
- Kiri Wagstaff (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA)
- Honorable Mention: Malte Helmert (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany)
2006
- Ernie Davis (New York University, USA)
- Rosemary Emery-Montemerlo (Stanford University, USA)
2005
- Jörg Hoffmann (Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science, Germany)
Outstanding Area Chair Award
2012
- Eyke Hüllermeier (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany)