Tim Baarslag

My goal is to act as a bridge between Mathematics and Cooperative AI, by developing a foundational theory for making effective and intelligent joint decisions.

Tim Baarslag is a Senior Researcher and leader of the Intelligent and Autonomous Systems group at CWI (The Dutch research institute for Mathematics and Computer Science) and Professor of Mathematics of Cooperative AI at Eindhoven University of Technology as well as an Associate Professor at Utrecht University. He is a Visiting Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a Visiting Associate Professor at Nagoya University of Technology and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton.

Tim Baarslag studies intelligent and autonomous systems that can collaborate through the process of joint decision making. Practical applications include smart energy trading, the Internet of Things, trading platforms, autonomous vehicles, and digital privacy & security assistants. Tim Baarslag currently investigates how negotiation AI can coordinate multiple deals as part of an NWO Vidi grant, called COMBINE: Coordinating Multi-deal Bilateral Negotiations. His research is featured in Science Magazine, Artificial Intelligence, Wired, BBC Technology of Business, AI Magazine, MIT Technology Review, and New Scientist.

Tim is the leading developer of Genius, a negotiation environment for the design and evaluation of automated negotiators. He is also an organizer of the annual International Automated Negotiating Agent Competition. Tim is a member of The Young Academy and the Council for Natural Sciences and Technology of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a founder member of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering and the ACM Future of Computing Academy for outstanding early career researchers. He serves as a PC member in top-level conferences such as AAAI and IJCAI, and as a reviewer in high-ranking journals such as Artificial Intelligence and JAAMAS. He is a recipient of the Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award by The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics and has been named an Academic Pioneer by Elsevier, Young Talent by The Financial Daily, and Science Talent by New Scientist.