Michael Wellman

Michael P. Wellman
Born	Michael Paul Wellman 27 March 1961(1961-03-27) Brooklyn, New York, USA
Nationality	United States
Education	MIT, Ph.D.
Occupation	Computer Scientist, Professor
Employer	University of Michigan
Title	Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computing Machinery
Website
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/wellman/

Michael Paul Wellman (Born March 27, 1961) 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. (now part of Ariba), 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 (SIGecom), 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.

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Name	Wellman, Michael
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Date of birth	March 27, 1961
Place of birth	Brooklyn, New York, USA
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