work_institution birth_place awards image_size name field birth_date article_title education birth_name
university of michigan brooklyn , new york , us fellow intelligence and the association for computing machinery of the association for the advancement of artificial 130x195px michael p. wellman computer science 27 march 1961 michael wellman
 mit , ph.d. . michael paul wellman
michael wellman

michael paul wellman -lrb- born march 27 , 1961 -rrb- is professor of computer science at university of michigan at ann arbor .
wellman received a phd from the massachusetts institute of technology 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 usaf 's wright laboratory .
for the past 15 + years , his research has focused on computational market mechanisms for distributed decision making and electronic commerce .
as chief market technologist for tradingdynamics , inc. -lrb- now part of ariba -rrb- , he designed configurable auction technology for dynamic business-to-business commerce .
wellman previously served as chair of the acm special interest group on electronic commerce -lrb- sigecom -rrb- , and as executive editor of the journal of artificial intelligence research .
he is a fellow of the association for the advancement of artificial intelligence and the association for computing machinery .
in 2014 wellman won the acm/sigai autonomous agents research award .
