Sarit Kraus - Biography#

Sarit Kraus (Ph.D. Computer Science, Hebrew University, 1989) is a Professor of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University and an Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland.

She has been working extensively in the following areas: the development of intelligent systems, negotiation and cooperation in mixed open environments (including people), personalization, learning and clustering, optimization of complex systems and security of physical systems.

In 1995 Kraus was awarded the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (the premier award for a young AI scientist). In 2001 she was awarded the IBM Faculty Partnership Award and in 2002 she was elected as AAAI fellow. In 2007 she was awarded the ACM SIGART Agents Research award and her paper with Prof. Barbara Grosz was a winner of the IFAAMAS influential paper award (joint winner). In 2008 she was elected as ECCAI fellow, in 2010 she was awarded the EMET prize and in 2011 she was awarded the Advanced ERC grant. She has published over 400 papers in leading journals and major conferences and is an author of the book Strategic Negotiation in Multiagent Environments (2001) and a co-author of a book on Heterogeneous Active Agents (2000); both published in MIT Press.

Kraus is an associate editor of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence Journal, and on the editorial board of the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, the Journal of Applied Logic, the Journal of Philosophical Logic (JPL) and the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology.