Michael P. Wellman

Michael P. Wellman is Lynn A. Conway Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received a Ph.D. from MIT in 1988 for his work in qualitative probabilistic reasoning and decision-theoretic planning. From 1988 to 1992, Wellman conducted research in these areas at the U.S. Air Force's Wright Laboratory. For more than 30 years, his research has focused on computational market mechanisms and game-theoretic reasoning methods, with applications in electronic commerce, finance and cybersecurity. As chief market technologist for TradingDynamics, Inc., he designed configurable auction technology for dynamic business-to-business commerce. Wellman previously served as chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce (SIGecom) and as executive editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. He is a fellow of AAAI and ACM.